Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain BG & Hybrid Striped bass population control

If you want SMB and HSB to have a chance to successfully control BG, give the SMB and HSB a big head start. I would wait to stock BG until your originally stocked SMB are at least 15" and the HSB are pushing 20"+. That should take 3-4 years after they are stocked, depending on how large they were were initially stocked...