Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations What has happened to our bluegill?

But the 200 you put in created how many thousand more?

LMB can be very prolific.

From what I have read here on PBF the initial stocked fish is not where the problems develop. It is the offspring of those original stock that determine if the pond is balanced or tipped in one direction or the other favoring either predators or forage fish.

I have the opposite problem in my 3 acre pond. The BG have done so well and procreated so efficiently they have over powered the LMB and I have had little to no recruitment of LMB. So I have small numbers of large bass but almost nothing since the original stock. I'm slowly getting that turned around by additional stocking and growing out some LMB in another pond to add to the 3 acre pond.