Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Maximizing Forage $$$

It all depends on the size of the bluegills that you stock. If you stock 1"-2.5" fish, then no, the numbers will stay the same because it'd be debatable whether they will grow large enough to pull off more than a rudimentary spawn. Now if you were stocking 4"-6" BG, then that's a different story. Maybe Bill Cody or ewest can come up with fecundy rates for different sized BG, I don't know what they are off the top of my head. A 30:1 stocking rate is 1,500:1. It would also depend on the size of the LMB that you will be stocking too. 50 12" LMB would need a different forage base than 50 3" LMB.