I caught another invaluable moment at the PB conference to bend Bill Cody's ear at stocking my pond. He has been instumental with suggestions and recommendations to create our RES/YP/SMB population.
I focused the discussion on my likely inability to manually manage the potential of over-population by the YP and the possibility that the SMB will be unable to cover my fishing/culling shortcomings. He really caught me off guard when he blandly replied that we might have to introduce WE. It just seemed weird to have even considered that option, but it does sound cool. It was nice to know that there are further options.

Brettski - I am anxious to see if your pond has a successful spawn of SMB in 2009. I think the spawn should occur since the pond has a high abundance of forage fish and the pond is not a carrying capacity quite yet. I am sure you will keep us informed.
Bill

Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/07/08 08:46 PM.