I'm more looking for a well balanced fishery, decent size bream and bass, not necessarily huge bass or huge bream, just healthy weight fish that I can enjoy catching and harvesting while maintaining a healthy pond.

BG seems like the most logical choice for my goals. Is there anything I can do to determine if they will be healthy in my pond (water tests?, etc). I mean is it a sink or swim kind of thing or would they live but just be sickly their entire lives and struggle to reproduce/survive? Is it a throw one in an aquarium of my pond water and see if he lives kinda thing? Haha.

If say, I started fishing other ponds and catching BG to put in mine, should they be as big as I can find so that the bass can't eat them? Would they spawn this year even with the shock of being in a new ecosystem? Is it basically just transplant as many as I can to increase my chances of a spawning population? Would I need to feed them?

What about the bass in the meantime, if there aren't a lot in there to begin with should I be taking any out or just leave them alone and hope they don't destroy the forage base I'm trying to build. Would it be best to try and remove them and start over?

Last edited by N Beach; 05/12/09 03:04 PM.