I try to give the fish sustained forage I really do not have to manage or replant. There is where frogs are perfect. Those big ol frogs make thousands of polliwogs. And those polliwogs eat algae, and bad plant matter and in turn are forage for my fat LMB. Or something else in the food chain. Plus, I can stck my LMB all that higher with a dense frog population. Give them soem shore cover, and get rid of garter snakes and you can tolerate the birds. They don't mess with the adults either. You will get recruitment.
A lot of my customers say the same thing, I remember when I was a kid we went out catching frogs and polliwogs. I have super rich customers, and they actually ask for frogs. I have planted at least 2,000 polliwogs so far this season, and I cannot meet demand for adults. I have a new moon coming up next week, I'll run a long night that night gathering adults, especially females.
If you have shoreline plants, LMB will just sit on the edges, waiting for them to swim out. Not only does it give the fish super easy forage, it presents great fishing opportunities. My ponds with no frogs, the lmb are the skinniest. Of course I have gambusia, bg, gsf, res and crawdads also. But I try to give the LMB huge amounts of natural forage, and make that a self sustaining population. A frog in a pond just keeps on cranking out more forage then any other critter, year after year. The more the merrier. Recruited or future classes of lmb inhale them. They are trained on the little ones. And you know how much it costs to feed frogs? Nothing.
