Was able to crop it on my phone. This is the smaller pond I have that am considering stocking with just cc and fhm. I'll try and get a picture of the main pond soon also
I called Hartley's back and added 2000 more fhm, 100 hbg, and 25 redear. The new plan is to have a catfish pond and pan fish pond until adding lmb to it next year. Thank you to everyone that helped with recommendations.
I 2nd the do not release CC after hook caught. Been removing for 2 years now after catch and release. Only could catch them when hand feeding table scraps, bread, etc. They would all come, and chow down. Smoosh some bread on the hook, or piece of meat, and wham. Got greedy last year, and caught 3 at one feeding. Not 1 CC showed up for tablescraps for over 1 YEAR, I thought they died from winter. The majority of fish are from 1997, and 7 - 9#. Fed for many years weekly. In july I had 1 show for a couple weeks, then 3. Last weekend 4, then 10. Fed tablescraps, and caught 1 each day. Drag them out quick, and keep throwing food out to keep the others busy. This is in a 5/8 acre pond. Have not caught 1 in years with bait on a hook, or specialty CC baits. Even had to take sinker of line before I got any. The fight is incredible like a steelhead but they start rolling.
Your CC are going to want a lot more feed than that soon unless there is something else for them to eat in the pond. They will become hungry "pigs" very quickly (once they get settled in to their new environment).
I plan on feeding more after they figure out what it is so i'm not wasting as much. They also have gizzard chad to eat that must have come with some heavy rains when the creek ran.
