Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Managing for Trophy GSF

Conner, welcome to the forum! If you want "trophy" anything, you would normally have very few in the water.

I most often get asked how to live with, or get rid of greenies rather than how to raise them...lol

I'd think growing big GSF would be similar to growing really big bluegill, and have lots of small, stunted, starving Large Mouth Bass, lurking to eat all but the fastest growing, smartest GSF.

Absent an effective predator, you would need to manage GSF more like a food fish operation to get size on them. Lots of seining and culling so only larger fish eat pellets and to reduce bio-demand on the body of water.

I'd think in your area, Fathead Minnows, Gambusia, Crayfish, and freshwater shrimp would be your best forage species. Those might be hard to keep with a bunch of hungry LMB though.

This should become an interesting and informative topic!