Yellow perch should place some of their eggs among the cattail beds. It would be a good idea to go somewhere and cut off a twiggy tree branch or cut a small (3/4"dia trunk) tree and lay the top part in the pond with the butt end on shore. YP will likely drape eggs on or around it if they are present. If you added 30 3"-6" YP into a 0.5ac pond with even 3-6 LMB 8"-14" long expect those smaller YP to be bass food in a short time. A 10" LMbass will easily eat a 5" YP. I had that happen numerous times. Stocking smaller YP with adult LMB won't work 95% of the time unless the YP are 8"+ and better if they are 9". You will struggle to get any YP recruitment with any LMB in the pond. YP present for the entire year will have to be add stock.

Small YP can survive with LMB in a very weedy pond, but then how would you fish that pond?

Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/05/15 09:46 AM.
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