Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose My Stocking Plans

The pond will be a little less than an acre, have 3 pennisula's, several rock piles in deep and shallow water, a 6' deep x 10' wide ledge with scattered rock and the entire shoreline will have 4" natural rock riprap 2' underwaterline and 6' under water on pennisula's. My plan is to stock 1000 papershell's this fall, 7lbs of FHM, 8lbs of GS and 5lbs of brood stock GS, 50 6" - 8" YP (pellet trained) and 25 RES 2" - 3", 25 3" - 4" RES early spring (before spawn). I will then stock 60 4" - 6" pellet trained SMB, 125 pellet trained 3" - 4" YP, 50 4" - 6" pellet trained YP and 10 pellet trained 5" - 7" HSB early next fall and I plan to pellet feed until the water is around 60. Do you think this is a solid plan? I want a good solid SMB pond with solid numbers and size. I will add aeration sometime next year with two airstations; one in max depth 10' - 12' and one in shallow end 5'.

Thanks to Bill Cody for all his input!

I'd change the GS to GSH.

http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=92442#Post92442

Yes golden shiners; I'm still a newbie here on the forum

Whew! For a minute I thought you meant Gizzard Shad.

Whats a papershell?

Papershell crayfish aka Calico crayfish info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orconectes_immunis
http://www.crayfishworld.com/internationalusa2.htm
http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/blogs/2010/07/crayfish/

Plus good information about the northern crayfish which are common in the northern central Midwest states.
http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/ansrp/ANSIS/html/orconectes_virilis_northern_crayfish.htm