Firstly communicate with the fishery guys and ask why they say no FHM/GSH. They should gladly answer since you hired them for the survey. I suspect it is because the current LMB population will eat all of them relatively quickly.
If you had fishery guys available, why did you not rotenone the pond when it was at low pool during renovation? Then restart from a new virgin pond. Fish renovation with rotenone would have been quite a bit cheaper than the fish survey.
The stocking plan appears reasonable for a good general fishing pond. Not stocking FHM/GSH forces the existing bass to prey on the current small sunfishes.
You might want to ladder stock (several each year) the CC so they don't all grow at the same rate and most need to be harvested at the same time at 1.5-3 lbs, unless you plan to harvest freeze a bunch of fish one summer. Or you like to butcher and eat 5-10 lb CC which becomes a special task.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 04/05/15 04:33 PM.
