Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Thinking of adding Redears??

Sounds like a perfect fishery! I totally understand wanting to add RES to the mix - but strongly consider selecting MALE RES only to avoid reproduction. Collecting late Spring/early Summer when they are on beds will help ID sex. BRES hybrids are cool, don't get me wrong I love them, but you might be adding a management issue you don't need when you could just be managing for trophy single sex fish. Adding male RES will not affect your resident fishery much at all as the RES forage overlap with BG won't be great...snails, invertebrates, etc will gain the the majority of their attention while your BG are feasting on pellets. I think adding 25-100 Male RES over time would be a very cool addition to the fishery.