Fish bird what kind of pond do you have? In West Virginia I have seen a lot of quarries and gravel pits that have small mouths as top predator but very few earth ponds. I imagine if you have small mouth, chain pickerel would have no problem adapting. They both exist in some creeks I like to fish. On the Ohio DNR web site they have a list of fish farms in the state. None of them list pickerel because the state doesn’t recommend them for stocking. That’s not to say that none of those farms sell pickerel.