Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Initial stock strategy

If you were sticking with 3"-5" LMB, I'd say put in another 50 or so.

The presence of the larger 10"-15" LMB complicates things. Since LMB prefer BG 1/3 to 1/4 their own body length, your original BG stockers, now 6"-8", should be safe (hopefully the RES as well). So what can those 10"-15" LMB eat? The GSH AND the smaller LMB would probably slide down quite nicely for them.

Additional Shiners might help fend off predation on the small LMB. I would avoid the transfer of any more advanced LMB, and carefully observe your LMB population next year. If the adults you transferred pull off a spawn (quite likely, IMHO), let the bass population ride and see how it goes.

P.S. A lot of us would have rescued the adult bass under these circumstances as well.