Austin, what were your initial ideas for a creative fishery in the father-in-laws pond? IMO the field tile entering the pond is questionable especially if the tile drain agricultural fields. Do some N&P periodic monitoring and testing of the tile water after crop fertilizer application and 1" rains. The tile drainage can accelerate the eutrophication and associated plant problems.
What do we know about musky management in ponds 1-5 acres? Are musky and hybrid musky that much different than northern pike? Why can we raise more pounds of bass per acre than musky. Is their food conversion efficiency different than that of a LMB.
Totally legitimate concerns. The main issue of raising a population that is large enough to have regular catch rates is the territorial aspect of the musky. Would they stack up like LMBS or WE? It's not very likely. So that makes it really a big challenge IMO. Along with that, the forage aspect of raising 50 musky even just up to 5 lbs each is so astronomical. Even if we hand feed each musky all day long every day, I don't think we'd be able to produce enough forage with LMBS. Not sure... The idea sounds awesome, but the carrying out of the plan is very high risk/high reward I think.
