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For all females you want to stock in spring before they spawn. At that time females will be bulging pig fat and males will be easily squirting white milt. Stock only those belly bulging perch and ignore obvious males and all those intermediate that you are unsure of. When in doubt leave it out. If you are not buying pellet trained perch and the stockers will live on bugs and minnows, then in 0.13 ac initially stock 15-25 YP. I am doing the same thing in a 0.2 ac pond. In March I will catch by angling and trapping 20 females 5"-8" (100/ac, max 150/ac) and put them in an all natural food pond.

If you can by pellet trained female perch, then you can start by adding up to 200-300 per acre for beginners. Aeration allows higher stocking densities. Many fish farms will not sell just females. I often buy mixed YP, raise them in a cage until the next spawn season, sort and stock females and fillet the males.