Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose BASS GROWTH

When you say "newly constructed,", how long was the pond finished and filled before the fish were stocked? The "volunteer" invertabrates that were in the pond at the time of stocking would have been all the bass had to eat until the fatheads and/or larger BG spawned (I am not real sure whether that would have been last year or this year in Louisiana, up here it would definitely be 2005). And the LMB would be competing with the BG and RES for that food source.

I believe you would be catching the LMB if they were present and had reached 6" in size. We were hauling in ours on worms by the time they were that big. But I am uncertain about BG and FH spawning possibilities for 2004 after October down South. Hopefully a Southern expert will have a good idea how much food your LMB have had available since stocking.