Pond Boss Forums INTRO New Forum Member Introduction Hello from KS/ New Stocking Plan: Good or Bad?

I love your efforts to establish a cool water species [I manage several myself] but introduction of LMB and BG will likely serve as management issues down the road. Limited gape predators [SMB, WE, HSB] will struggle to manage BG population, and LMB will outcompete SMB over time which will require supplemental stocking which get expensive as SMB are not always readily available. Whenever a client wants to establish a cool water species fishery the first thing I check is watershed for existing upstream fisheries. If they exist I try to manage the expectations on the client on success of fishery. Through intensive management of BG and LMB [angling, trapping, seining] a balance can be achieved, but the continuous management effort is a reality...and gets exhausting. Esshup and Snipe cover a lot of this ground in their replies above, just reiterating data derived from my fishery experiences to help manage your expectations. Hope some of this is helpful and good luck whatever you decide to do.