THanks everyone!! This was a local biologist from a forest preserve. He was at my place to help me with establishing native plants around the pond. I told him that I just placed the order for my 1st stocking for this 1 ac pond. I ordered 350 3-5" BG and 150 2-3" PS(too far north for RS) along with CC,FHM,GS. I'll stock 5-8" LMB in the fall.
He said that I'll have a pond full of stunted fish regardless if I feed or not. He recommended cancelling the order and substituting HBG instead and then add 3-5" BG in 3 yrs to establish a forage base for the LMB. THis goes against everything that I've learned from you guys on this site. I really would like to have big BG, but I think I'm going to stick with my original order....what do you think?
Justin
