Scott, that is a shame, to spend that kind of dough and not end up with a nice pond.This is only my second year of pond ownership,so it is hard to tell of survival rates. I did find perch egg ribbons early this spring.The cats were only stocked this fall so they would have had little to do with survival.I do Seem to have good survival of fry because about 1 1/2 acres is shallow and weedy with lots of little fish (not always easy to ID)I do have two other ponds, one is just LMB and Bluegill, and the other is more of a channel apprx. 150'x 20' which is stocked with fatheads and yellow perch (hoping to grow them out to transplant to the big pond. I wasn't planning on stocking the trout in my pond as I believe they would just be prey.I'll have to search around and read up on testing for PH and ALK.My buddy is a local who believes that you throw them in and they will grow, and laughs at me and my researched ideas.

Jimmy

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