Hopefully TJ will chime in. The SMB will have a VERY hard time keeping up with the YOY BG reproduction. I'd stock 25-30 SMB in there when you do and keep tabs on their growth. What you are shooting for is enough SMB in there to keep the YOY BG in check. With your goals of a kids fishing pond, you still want a good population of BG to make it a fast bite for the kids. But not too many that they start to stunt.

Any idea how many Males and Females you bucket stocked? For instance, if you pulled Males off the beds, you might not have any females in there at all.

Will you be keeping BG from the pond to eat? How much cover is in the pond for the YOY BG to hide in? Anu submerged aquatic vegetation?

I'm on the fence about recommending you to stock feed trained SMB and to feed 'em.

Do you know if the BG have pulled off a successful spawn last year? I would consider throwing in 5# of FHM as soon as you can this Spring, as far ahead of the SMB as possible. If that's all that is in there (the adult BG) and they didn't pull off a spawn, depending on when the SMB are stocked, there might not be enough food in there for them.

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