Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Delayed introduction of predator fish.

With HBG and CC, expect small, skinny LMB, since the HBG can not produce enough forage to support many LMB. Once the LMB have their fist spawn, I doubt you will see more than a very few LMB over 16" in the pond.

You may want to stock 10-15 same sex LMB per acre rather than trying to control HBG reproduction. That would let the LMB grow considerably larger for angling fun. Also, once your CC get to be around 2-3 pounds, unless feeding them pretty heavily, they will compete with the LMB for scarce food, get very skinny and starve as well.