Mason,
Woops, I'm late again.
Good question about trout density in pond.
Nothing very scientific here for trout stocking rates. You will probably want to follow Cecils advice as he follows a better management plan than I do.
I guess I have always figured about 150 fish per surface acre in a low to medium managed pond. We do supplement our 3.2 acre trout pond with aquamax feed from one feeder. Yes, fish (rainbows) go crazy under the feeder. I am pretty sure very few if any browns visit the feeder and only a percentage of the rainbows.
I do watch WR ratios fairly closely and if fish performance drops off, we harvest a few more fish. Browns will definitely throw a wrinkle in this theory unless Cecil pays me a visit and shows me how to catch these phantom fish.
Cecil, will the panty hose pellets technique work on fish that have not seen or visited the pellet feeder?
I would like to catch many of the browns out if possible?
On a side note: We also stock significant numbers of FH minnows in this pond from our dedicated minnow pond. There seams to be large numbers of varying age class minnows in the shallows. I believe this also tells me that maybe our stock density is about right for the rainbows or maybe even a little low.
I would not recommend this procedure if you have to buy minnows.
Kind of like Cecil, I am �pushing� a few of the rainbows �hogs� very hard on feed! Everyone likes to see BIG fish��.right?
If our trout population, density, WR�s gets too �out of whac� it is easy to fix. Our trout do no spawn, and in the worse case scenario the pond has a drain plug.
Probably not much help from me.
Ed
