I wanted to strike up a question as we wait on warmer temps, just out of curiosity. In a let's say, 135-acre body of water, how many YP would need stocked with bluegill, LMB, and black crappie already present to achieve a sustainable YP population? Is there anyone that has done this size of such a stocking or know what it would approximately take in amount of YP. A lot to this, but I'm mostly curious about this scenario. If you stocked a bunch of pregnant and fat, female YP along with mature males into 50 or more acres of water how many would it take to have a sustained pop? Will most all the males naturally stick with the females and be there to milt and do their thing for the female eggs that are strewn in the shallows with that much water present for them? I know of a 600+ acre body of water that has a consistent, stable YP population, where LMB, crappie, bluegill, and walleye are all present. Kind of peaks some curiosity as to how close to the male YP have to be to successfully spread their goods on the eggs?
