I've thought about it some and my goals are to be able to go out to the pond and catch a dinner of good sized panfish or small WE or Trout a couple times per week. To catch a nice fat SMB maybe once per week for fun, and to catch some CC maybe once per month for a fish fry for friends. . . So I guess my main questions now are thus:
- how do I find out if fish grown in my pond (not transplanted) are safe to eat?
- how do I find out if fish from my river are safe to eat?
- what stocking strategy would you recommend for a 1/3 acre pond with an abundance of large predatory fish and no forage so far except for invertebrates, a few crawdads, tadpoles and frogs, and some small FHM??
- drop offs are steep in the pond - should I try to add rock or dirt or sand in a few areas to give more shallow areas for spawning or feeding?
- what is your best SMB, BG, and CC recipe? :-)
