We are taking the plunge and last Friday ordered fish to be delivered on Wednesday. We went with 2 lbs of FHM, 100 redear, and 25 LMB. Our pond is just under 1/4 acre and meant to be more swimming than fishing so this seemed enough. Saw a comment in a Jones catalogue that redear tend to nibble less....hoping that's true
The pond is new, dug last summer, so very limited vegetation. One small area is 16' deep. I have an old Christmas tree and a couple scraggly branches that I think will work as structures. I also made a small "puptent" shape with old wood lattice. I got that to sink in the deepest part, but didn't get enough weight on the trees to sink them (and the water was too cold to work more at it
) So my question...is it better to have structures in the deep part of the water? or in the shallow?
