Anthropic, not sure this will help you make a decision on stocking time, but my first of two stockings was made in late November with approximately one acre of water 3' deep' or a little less than 1/3rd of the pond size. I fertilized using one dehydrated bale of alfalfa, I separated the bale into 1/4 slices. A bale of dehydrated alfalfa is a very small amount of material. Stocked fhm's, cnbg and res. The second stocking was 2 full pool in late Feb. I have no idea of the spawning with the cnbg or res. I did a minnow trap sample in June and found several 1" cnbg in the trap. Lmb fingerlings stocked in June and now I do not see any 1 or 2" fish of cnbg, res, tilapia and most all of the fhm's are gone. look's like the lmb have put a hurt on any thing in the 1 to 2" size fishes. That tells me my lmb are most likely in the 6 to 8" or bigger in size. And Todd @ Overton's Fishery tells me of the CBLMB growing rates in this short time period and would fit the reduction in the smaller size forage fish missing in the pond. So, this also clouds my ability to figure out the spawning of the cnbg and res in the pond.

Tracy

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