Originally Posted By: TGW1
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



Thanks, Tracy. I have water varying from 1 foot deep to over 6 feet, still murky but not as muddy as when it began filling 6 weeks ago. I'm a bit concerned about DO in hot conditions, though, as well as pH levels (pine area drainage but we limed pond bottom).

7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160