Hey Hoosierguy, welcome to the forum [a little late]. Love your direction on fishery species, you should consider contacting Hoosier Pond Pros - Scott has significant experience with those species and can help create a stocking strategy and fishery management plan for you. Scott can help your source various minnow, shiner, and crayfish species which I'd recommend for your cool water fishery. He also provides feeders and can provide a promising new supplemental feed - Optimal. Yes, he also does windows and will drop off dry cleaning for you when he's in the area.

http://www.hoosierpondpros.com

Take all of Bill's advice above to heart - shallow ponds are far more management intensive - my advice also is to go deep and steep. Your cool water species fish will perform better with deeper water and access to cooler water in periods of extreme IN summer heat spells. For my clients I recommend at least 3:1 slopes, prefer 2:1, and get to 6'+ depths as soon as possible. Your max depth of 14' looks ok to me.

Good luck and let us know your progress.


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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