Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Yellow Perch Pond

Don't expect to grow high numbers of large RES due to most ponds not being able to produce enough natural foods for them since they eat primarily mollusks usually snails. A pond can have a lot of snails but after RES get some size and are established food for them becomes limiting. They easily over graze the snail production. In most cases think of RES as the occasional bonus fish unless you can train them to eat high protein pellets.
There quite a bit of past topics where YP & RES have been stocked and growing them discussed. Do a search for yellow perch redear sunfish pond boss forum on Google and you should get a lot of topics to read. Someone should create a topic in the Common Question & Answer Archive section about yellow perch.

Getting YP & RES established and spawn first before adding predators is often recommended, similar to BG before LMbass. However I do not suggest that you allow the YP to spawn for two years before adding some predators. It will often result in too many small YP and not enough larger perch in later years for a good annual harvest of YP.