Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Why HSB and not Stripers?

Striped bass were stocked into Kiser Lake in Champaign, Co. Ohio. It's not far from my place and I have fished it many times. The DNR stocked it with HSB for years but started stocking pure stripers a couple of years ago...for breeding stock I heard. Kiser lake is pretty typical for our area. Mostly 5-6' with Max depth around 12', surrounded with lilly pads, weedy and fertile. Saugeye stocking wasn't successful and was discontinued. HSB have done extremely well. I had a friend who covered the bottom of his truck bed with 3lb to 10lbers in one evening. It's interesting to me that saugeyes didn't do well but the expect the pure stipers to. There is 1 fish per day 26" size limit on pure stripers in this lake.