Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Stocking a large body of water?

Thanks for the reply, Snipe. Your recommended stocking rates are a lot lower than the recommended rates I was looking at on the hatchery's website - and would certainly be more affordable. Admittedly, I'm new at this. But it did appear that their recommendations were what you'd want to end up with, but they were recommending stocking at those levels instantly rather than stocking enough to grow into the desired levels over a year or two. For instance, the recommendation I saw there for FHM was 10-100#/acre. BG was up to 1,000/acre. Bass up to 100/acre. That would cost a fortune for 30-50 acres.

At the same time, it would be wasted time and money to not stock enough of everything and to end up not getting any results. Trying to find the right balance seems to be the hardest part, especially for larger bodies of water.