Esox in ponds are not ideal. I agree they are a cool fish and I would love to stock them into ponds myself, but Esox species, particularly the larger ones, IE msuky, tigers and northerns can cause a big mess. There may be isolated instances where they work out, but the risk is too high IMO.
This sounds to me pretty clearly like a complete discounting of my advice. This may be a little redundant as I just ranted in another thread in which my advice for that poster was also discounted by CJ, but I don't make recommendations based on whimsy or something I just read a week ago on the forum; I have ten years of experience managing ponds, I do it professionally, and I never recommend anything that I don't have personal experience with. As I've noted more than once, I personally have stocked pike in an almost identical situation - same exact size pond, same exact problem down to the species that has taken over. If anyone is qualified to make a recommendation for this situation, it's me. And yet my advice was dismissed as that of a casual hobbyist with no remote firsthand experience in what he's recommending. CJ mentions in the other thread I allude to that he has two years of experience managing ponds; I have ten. I'm going to go out on a limb here and wager that he's never even stocked an esocid into any pond he's worked with, and therefore has no firsthand knowledge of what he's talking about. I do have that experience. I wouldn't have made the recommendation otherwise.
