Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Rainbow Trout Stocking Help

with the thermocline setting up that deep, the trout may survive the summer. The smaller trout will be food for the larger bass, the larger ones won't reproduce.

BUT, if the majority of the bass in the pond are 9"-15", then some of the smaller trout might very well survive. Rainbows eat a lot of insects, so you might be OK for not feeding them. I don't think the larger trout will eat many of the smaller trout, I think the bass will eat more of them than the larger trout will.

Keep on taking out bass. I'd shoot for 20 to 30 pounds per surface acre to remove this year.