Pond Boss Forums INTRO New Forum Member Introduction Hello, my name is Ed

Bill, esshup and Fish n Chips, thanks for the suggestions and recommendations.

I have to realize I do not have complete control over all the fish that end up in my pond over time. Mother nature can add additional stock from our creek that over flows into our pond once every 5 years or so, also causing our pond to over flow as well. The creek currently bypasses the pond during the normal rainy times. That said, I need to recognize that these very heavy rain events will occur every so often and remove/add fish to my pond. Not looking to invest in altering the path of mother nature.

We are looking forward to the daily feeding of our fish. This gives both of us a lot of enjoyment. We are certainly used to doing this daily activity with the rest of the animals on the farm (the pond is fenced off from them).

I originally proposed in this thread the following stocking of fingerlings.
10 LMG
35 HBG
15 RES Redear

Based on the feed back here, I am now proposing the following stocking of our .1 ac pond of fingerlings this fall. Daily hand feeding. I will hold off a year or two on stocking LMB or RBT. Holding off on the CC.

10 Yellow Perch (YP)
10 Hybrid Striped Bass (HSB)
20 Redear Sunfish (RES)
30 Hybrid Bluegills (HSB)
FHM

Does this look like a good initial plan?
Since these are fingerlings, can these be shipped to me?

Ed