Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait How many shinners??

Just a thought. Generally speaking with LMB it is not the original stockers that need management but is rather their offspring. IMO unless your goal is many small LMB then 100 LMB stockers is to many. You would be better off long term with 50 to 60. In a southern pond stocked with standard forage and LMB (like yours) the LMB will out eat the food chain in about 2 years. The offspring of those first LMB will clean out the small forage. Studies have shown that this period can be lengthened by stocking more forage to start (or less predators or both). For example by stocking 2500 BG per acre rather than 1000 the period was extended to over 3 years. These were not managed to account for fishing so managing those #s by harvest will effect the situation.

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2 mins apart Bill and I provide the same advice !!!!