If you really want some CC-HSB-BC in the wetland area then just have the contractor dig a small pond about 60x60 adjacent to or part of the wetland for growing minnows/forage.
Hey Bill, I am having that size pond dug (maybe slightly smaller) for the silt pond that will drain into the main larger pond. I appreciate the help so far and get what you are saying about forage only in the duck pond but now I'm thinking again...
I could(?) do forage in the silt pond that will fill the main larger pond if I'm able to design so that all minnows don't wash out into main pond. That would let me have another multi-species stocking in the smaller duck pond to have two distinct "fisheries".
P.S. While we are talking about it (forage pond), what is the advantage of raising separate and then catching and moving to larger pond to feed predators vs. just simply letting them live/spawn and be eaten in the larger pond without having to trap and move them?
P.P.S. I really like those fyke nets and am thinking I will try that for BC control years down the road after/if they are introduced
