Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose For southern ponds, why not RES & LMB?

I manage several fisheries with RES and have never witnessed a population management issue - apex predators in these fisheries are either LMB or HSB/SMB/WE or any combination thereof. I recommend RES stocking to all my clients regardless of their goals - in my experience they've never had a negative impact on any fishery regardless of the species present. I have also witnessed robust RES populations vs BG in some interstate 80 lakes - these all feature LMB as the apex predator. I never arrived at a logical explanation for these Sunfish dynamics but recall vividly catching RES 5:1 vs BG in these fisheries and it left me puzzled.