As mentioned in another thread, we are in the process of digging an 11 acre pond. This forum has been very helpful as I put together the stocking plan. One thing I’m not finding is if the fish stocked per acre should change based on their duration in the pond prior to predator introduction.

If the recommendation is add add BG in the spring at 1000/acre and bass in the fall at 50/acre, does waiting until adding bass the following spring allow me to reduce the BG count? I would imagine so as both the original stocked BG and their year of young are likely both to be a bigger size class than bass could eat and the second year spawn is the primary forage.

If that assumption is correct does it apply to other forages such as FHM and TFS? How much could you reduce stocking rates by to account for the later introduction of LMB?