Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Hello everybody:

50 6" or better would be enough to get a nice spawn the first year IF they were returned when caught.

This was the first year we fished my new pond after putting 29 RES adults in the Spring of 2008. We caught most all of the adults at least once this year (fishing for RES without a large population of BG present is a whole different ball game - much easier to catch RES without a bunch of BG present IME) and a bunch of yearlings as well.

If he is going to remove RES during the first year, I think I'd want 200 stockers to have at least 50 left after catching and keeping any that were caught.