Question: No luck finding blue catfish for my 3rd pond (about 0.4 acres). It currently has been stocked with FHM and lake chubsuckers. I was planning to add 10 RES next spring but plant life in the pond is minimal. My lotus is hanging on, but struggling. Will the RES likely survive? Any downside adding them in spring even though I don't know when I may find some blue catfish? Once I get some blue catfish in there, I plan to add black crappie as well. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Do you have any good places to catch blue catfish? (There have been a few threads on the forum about the difficulties in sourcing blues.)
If you could catch a few and add some good spawning habitat, maybe you could get one good age class started and then remove the spawning habitat?
