I feel you can over stock forage. Remember whatever goes in needs to eat and puts out waste. You can still achieve what you want by stocking 1,000 per acre per year for three years to reach your 3,000 per acre goal. After that you let it ride and see if your investment continues to repopulate itself the following years. This has always been our philosophy, to establish self sustaining populations of both predators and forage. Sometimes the forage bases need a little boost, but for the most part this approach works and alleviates having to stock every year. The first dollars I would spend are getting a comprehensive evaluation of the water, fish population and habitat/vegetation present.
