Your experience is valuable DaveS, stick with your plan and then come back and share your experience and especially your pictures! We would love to see your warmouth grow and have a photo chronicle of it.
There are fish farms in MI that are looking for other panfish options to grow, stock and sell. Folks like you will help break the BG/LMB/Catfish mantra that leads so many pondowners in small northern ponds astray.
Keep us posted!
