Originally Posted by Augie
Welcome to PB!

CC gave you some very good advice. Set your goals first, get your cover/structure in place, build your forage base, wait a year, stock your game fish.

Personally, if I had a pond that far north, I'd be thinking along the lines of yellow perch (YP), pumpkinseeds (PS), and smallmouth bass (SMB).

Interesting. SMB is on my mind, as that is my favorite game fish. I assume I would need plenty of rock habitat, right? I have no clue at the moment of how much, where to put it, and where to get it.