Certainly, I defer to Bill's input.

I do have a curiosity to hear about someone's experience of having a single pike or musky (or a definite controlled number of the same) in a small pond.

I know one of our newer members has said he believes he has one pike in his pond, but I'm not sure he's certain that there's only one in there.

I know we also have another member in WV IIRC (that one's for you Theo) who has several musky who were feeding on an over-population of carp.

There's a slight novelty factor about having a pike or musky in a pond and I think that connects to an innate desire to treat the pond as a large aquarium. But I very much agree that such a scenario is not easily self sustainable regarding the predator/prey relationship.

Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."