If your pond does not have any Redear in it, and you wanted them in there, I would start calling around to see who has them now and stock them asap. If you wait, the LMB will be larger and you will have to stock advanced sizes of RES to avoid being eaten by the LMB.

You say you are seeing both large and small HBG on the nests. Are you positive that they are all HBG and there are no GSF mixed in with them (the smaller ones)?

At a stocking rate of 160 LMB per acre and only 400 BG per acre, I am assuming that your goal for the pond is a large Bluegill pond, correct? How many CC did you stock?

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Last edited by Bill Cody; 06/28/16 08:18 AM.
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