I recommend deciding on forage base and allowing time for it to grow before stocking your apex predators. What forage base have you decided upon? I recommend FHM this Spring, papershell crayfish, and BNM or SFS if you can source them. You could stock HBG and RES next late Summer/early Fall. I would personally wait on the YP, SMB and HSB until the following year when your forage base is stronger. Your RES and HSB shouldn't impact it too much, but you could certainly wait to stock them in the Summer/Fall 2018 also.


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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