Ryan, we've been through this once before; evidently you missed it, so I'll fill you in. I've personally stocked NP in the past, more than once, with great success; one of the very best ponds I ever worked with, which was a grand total of one acre bigger than the one under discussion in this thread, had 20 - yes, 20, 12" each - northern pike stocked the first year I began working with it because it was horribly, grotesquely overpopulated with GSF and almost nothing else. I won't give all the details as I've done so more than once in more than one previous thread, but the cogent ones are that three years after the pike were stocked, the pike had not remotely taken over the pond or eaten every fish in the pond, four- to six-pound LMB were being caught with great regularity including a 7.5 caught by a close friend and one that might've gone thirteen or better -- northern-strain LMB - lost by my grandfather, and the bluegill population had rebounded and there were dozens of bluegill well over a pound feeding at both locations in the pond where I fed by hand, some of them probably a pound and a half or better.
There are certainly varying opinions on here on many subjects. It's perhaps a little better to say when disagreeing, "I personally disagree with that recommendation," rather than classifying the recommendation as "terrible." Especially if you've never employed the recommendation yourself, which I have. And there are other pond managers on here who regularly stock pike and tiger muskie both in ponds of all sizes, FYI.
