i recently bought a new house with a 1.60 acre pond lmb/bg. It turned out to be full of every unwanted sepcies of fish known to man so after fightin with it for a year trying to get it balanced i pulled the plug an drained it, now im starting over. The state is supplying the fish in a ratio of 2000 BG/RES in march an 200 LMB in may.
Im looking for a good LMB pond but happy with 4-5 lb bass and big bream. They didnt recommed any forage fish to go along with the BG/RES. Are Any needed or will the BG do for forage fish. im sorta worried about the forage fish taking over in pond, i had 16" shad an 12 shinners in the old pond. It had very little BG/RES in pond with mostly shad/shinners/mudcats/crappie an a few LMB around 4lb but no samll fish of any kind so fishing was poor to say the least. so im looking for some info on if i should stock forage fish an how many. pond in in south alabama