Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Got the Pond Killed Off today

I second the single sex LMB route if you are determined to stock LMB. BUT, be 110% sure that they are all one sex......

BUT, here's why I said no. A given pond can only grow "X" pounds of fish. In your pond, I would only plan on having 25-40 LMB. That's of all sizes..... For each of those LMB to gain one pound per year, they will have to consume 250 to 400 pounds of fish if you don't buy feed trained LMB and feed them pelleted fish food. That's pushing the limits of carrying capacity of your pond without aeration and supplemental feeding.

Year 3, you will have to remove about 10# of LMB per year.

If you use HSB, since they don't reproduce in ponds, just keep tabs of how many fish you take out and replace them annually. No worries about the population exploding due to spawning.

OR, change your goals to raising large BG/HBG. Then stock 50 LMB in there and remove any that grow larger than 15" or so.