Robert, I too did an initial stocking on a brand new pond in April of this year with 300 6-8" CC, 200 2-4" LMB, 400 CNBG 4-6", 100 RES 4-6", 40 lbs of FHM.. I am in Northeast Texas and have two feeders going off twice a day in a pond that is about 3 acres.. I switched to Purina Game Fish Chow after convincing our local feedmill to carry it.. It is amazing in short order how big ALL thie fish have gotten.. NOW fast forward to this month, CC currently caught are 10-12" and round as a soda can, LMb are anywhere between 8-10" and chunky, the CNBG, and RES from the first stocking are not as fast growing mainly just filling out their body and grown half-1 inch.. Now there are NOOOOO minnows to be seen at all anymore.. Then in May of this year,
I added 500 3-4" more CNBG and 3-4" 100 Blk Crappie (regret that one) they are all but blowing up, getting very big, even caught up to some of the first stocking.. The first fruits of Game Fish chow over the Nutrisource (not sure if that was the name) stuff rom Tractor Supply I guess. Just my take on some growth levels in my pond, spawning went well there are still occupied beds now and especially at night with a spot light the shores are FULL of fry.. I didn't do the stocking thing right by adding predators with forage fish but all seems very good, I had to dump more money to try and get a good frst year spawn of forage and will put more foragefish in there when temps get reasonable.. Thought I would give you my take on the fish growth.. we have ahad a blast with it so far...
Be Blessed,
Damon
