Awesome!
Can you get us an angling report as well as soon as possible that shows what you catch when you go fishing for 30 mins or an hour?
To be as successful as possible you will need to fish for and remove the big pike and then stock new ones. continually putting and taking them. if you do end up enjoying that aspect of the mgmt plan I guess thats ok....
Also Im not concerned if the pike do happen to reproduce and stunt out at 16" hammer handles....
I do think the YP are gonna get hit hardest initially unfortunately. That makes me wonder- currently how is your perch population? how often do you catch them and what average size are they? how about the biggest ones, how big are they?
I think it would be helpful to set the baseline for each species in the pond up to this point based on your current knowledge gained or assumed from stocking and angling.
Then do the netting survey info and see how that lines up and then move forward from there.
One thing I assume is that with the absence of the pikes, currently the fish average size across the board is probably rapidly going down due to the absence of predators...
