Hey everyone, my name is Chad. I was recently given the "go ahead" to the management of our 2.5-3 acre pond on our family farm. Not exactly sure on the whole stocking history, since the pond was there with the purchase. But it had CC, Minnows (unsure of specifics), BG (but not many). With poachers, the CC are practically gone but we have since added a structure to the property and the poaching ceased with increased time spent there. No history of LMB in the pond at all to my knowledge. That's what I want! My goal is trophy LMB. There are a lot of minnows in there, but I'll be adding more before I introduce the LMB. I'd also like to really boost the BG. I want TONS of forage before I introduce them. We have another piece of property with a large creek going through it and a spring. I routinely catch 3-4 lb (Up to 8lb) bass out of the creek and BG as big as your hand out of the spring. Would it be okay to transport some of these fish, especially the BG to my pond? Or even 1 big bass (I plan on stocking it correctly with fingerlings, I'm jw if it would hurt anything to have 1 LMB in there far ahead of the others) ? I have a lot of work to do, structure wise. It's just been a CC pond (CC boxes). When it was real low I should have been working my butt off, but like a fool, I didn't. It's going to be a lot harder now
I have quite a few pallets, Christmas trees, cedar brush and a boat.
Also, I heard today that a local feed store "has a guy that comes through with a truck of fish in the spring, you buy them a dozen at a time."
This sounds ridiculous to me! A dozen at a time? I'm not buying bait!
