Agree with Scott, HBG are superfluous considering your goals - just taking up biomass for little return. I'd consider reinvesting that $ into aeration or other projects.

Keep your mind open to feeding. Fish grow 3x faster and a stronger, healthier BG population will directly impact your LMB fishery quality, too.

Love the WE addition as bonus fish...get the WE in ASAP to get ahead of the LMB. Remember supplemental stocking will need to be decent sized fish to survive LMB predation in later years - 12-15" fish. Hard to come by probably unless you cage and grow them out on a diet of BG - which could be a lot of fun!

HSB perform best with pellet program, just something to keep in mind.

Sounds like a great project, you really did well allowing your forage base to establish and flourish. Good job, that took a lot of patience, huh? wink

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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