One option. Best swimming pond could be if you just add a few tilapia each year to keep the algae controlled. Plan to fish them out and remove most of the offspring when they die in Dec-Jan at 50-52F water temp. If you don't like that plan you can always add sport fish later as you learn the pond fertility and its habits. I have just tilapia in a few swimming - domestic water use ponds, water stays clear, and owners do not complain the tilapia bother swimmers. If you need some predators add several HSB for the kids to occasionally feed and catch. Regular bass will reproduce and produce too many predators for the best results of the tilapia FA eating machinery.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/05/15 02:12 PM.
