This thread is awesome! I am waiting for my pond to fill up so I can plant some spiral eel grass and hardy lillies, next weekend I will stock FHM, GSH, RES, crayfish, banded killifish, and hopefully some other diverse minnows and eventually some Grass Shrimp. The plan is to have a SMB/YP pond. I made some smallmouth beds similar to yours but larger, I don't want to overpopulate mine since it is not a repro pond but I do want a sustaining population so I only put in two beds.
Since you drained the pond out and removed all the fish will you put a forage base in and let them marinate for a year before adding SMB or will you just put SMB in and feed them pellets?
Last edited by RockvilleMDAngler; 04/05/12 09:59 AM.
