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Originally posted by conceptsmachining:
From the way it sounds we need to stock the FHM in next spring, and wait a till around october to stock the bluegill and catfish, and then the following june stock the Bass. A long time before the fishing gets any good, but thats what makes it all the more worth while.
That's the long, safe approach: building the forage base from the bottom up, including all the microscopic and macroscopic invertabrates we don't always talk about that are the first layer right above the phytoplankton. It does take a while, but it gives you lots of time to study and learn from not only human sources like PB, but from each layer of the food chain as you add it on. There are fascinating things that you only get an easy chance to see when you are starting up a new pond; the next layer of the food chain covers them up, obscures them, or eats most of them and they aren't as obvious in a mature pond.

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