Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain GSH in my trout pond? Growth concerns

In particular, you do not want to introduce anything that might heavily compete with trout for prey that are the size of your scuds or larger. Large GSH will consume your scuds and FHM fry. They could grow fat on them in the same way your trout grow fat on them. The growth of your fish seem to be approaching what can only be described as maximum potential growth. This tells me two things. There is lots of prey and the trout standing weight is less than the lake could support. Unless mortality intervenes, they will continue to grow like this (I think) until they reach the lakes limit of carrying capacity.