Welcome!
I'm sure you'll get some very good advise soon.

To start with it would have been preferable to have established your forage base waiting until next fall to plant your preditors.

It's going to become difficult to establish LMB with 1000 6" to 12" cats present even if you do it now. If you wait it will be almost impossible because of the crappie unless you put in adult bass.

If it were my pond I would bite the bullet & go ahead & stock the LMB now using 6" to 8" fish. Follow with another stocking of fathead minnows late spring & again in mid summer. Definitely get a feeder, prob. 2.

Please note this is just my opinion. You'll be getting more sound advice from more knowledgable folks soon.

Pond Boss Subscriber & Books Owner


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Ric