My basic goal is to have bigger bass and a healthy fish balance. My brother wants BG for the kids, but I am sure RES would be fine if they could keep pace with the bass. According to most resources RES do not have the recruitment of BG, so this could be a problem. We will also be putting in around 30 channel cats as well, they are my favorite fish to catch and eat.

Stocking plans usually call out for advanced sizes of fish for certain breeds. I have been looking for local hatcheries to get fish from here in Illinois, but I have only found one that is fairly close. It is in Perry, Mo and called Nemo. They do most of the local farm store "fish days". The problem is that they only have 1 size of their fish. Getting advanced size anything seems to be a problem around here. If I need to get advanced size bluegill I will probably just catch them and transplant.

Last edited by Jakeroo; 06/25/13 10:27 AM.