Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking What to stock to help bass growth

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Without having a forage base established, the LMB are relying on eating each other and anything small enough that falls into the pond. It'll be hard getting a forage base established with the LMB in the pond now. You could stock larger BG, but even most of the 2"-4" fish will get eaten. I think you need to stock larger ones (4"-6") and remove some LMB.

Around here, the 2"-4" fish run around $0.60 each and the 4"-6" run about double the 2"-4" price.

The reason I say it might be hard, and that you probably need to remove some LMB, is that for every pound of weight you want to put on one LMB, you need 10# of forage (food).

Forget about fatheads, it's like throwing small candy bars to a crowd of kids. They'll be gone within a week, and probably a lot quicker than that.