bdog -- If you decide to wait to stock and let food organisms develop before adding trout, then go to forum home (above right) and move down to Creating The Food Chain. In that forum is the topic: Freshwater Shrimp. Choose it. Read it. Then back on page three they discuss amphipods or scuds also called Gammarius fasciatus. Some incorrectly call these freshwater shrimp. If you want really good trout food to develop then get some of these scuds and seed them into your pond this spring. They will multiply over summer and are great trout food.
Otherwise if you don't want to wait, do as mentioned above, stock trout now and feed them pellets. You will get fast growth this spring summer and fall. If you stock 6" to 8" trout this spring you should have 12"-14" or larger trout by late fall.
