Therrien, do yourselfa dn him a HUGE facor: FHM with flat sturcture for apawning, 3-5" BG, with a smatteing of "adult immigrants with green cards" from other waters, THEN AND ONLY THEN a year later, put in your LMB. AGAIN, how is your strcture?
It sonds as though your too anxious to stock all varieties of fish too quick. Hope you're p[aying real close attention to the quality of water and structure BEFORE you put a single fish in the water.
Just sayin ------ Jim
Stocking forage species before the bass could help if he's going mainly for big bass (I confess I don't remember his goals for the pond, just that he's dealing with a pond owner who doesn't want to use hatchery fish). But if he's interested in having good-sized bluegill, stocking the bluegill a year before the bass is a recipe for disaster in his region as the bluegill will severely overpopulate, if not by the time the bass are stocked (probably will have happened by then) then most certainly by the time the bass get big enough to eat intermediate bluegill. Note that many northern DNRs recommend stocking the bass a year before the bluegill just to lessen the chance of overpopulation.
