Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Perch and walleye help

Welcome to the forum. The survival of both species would be marginal. Too much pressure from predation.

When you say that there is not a lot of cover in the pond, that is another nail in the coffin. For the YOY fish to have enough cover to survive predation, AND for the stocker YP to do the same, I wouldn't feel comfortable stocking fish that were smaller than 50% of the size of the LMB until I had 20% of the pond surface area in cover for the fish to hide in.

20% doesn't sound like much, but once you start calculating square footage and then calculating how many brush piles, etc. that requires, you will have 2nd thoughts. PLUS, if you use woody cover for the brush piles, you will have to do that same amount of work all over again in 5-7 years because of decomposition.