Since I'm FINALLY getting ready to stock I was thinking about how I wanted the pond to end up. I really want as much diversity in the pond as possible with a few fish frys a year. . My thinking is what if i did a SMB/YP/RES pond with some SBS and a few HSB and added some crawfish as additional forage forage. The SMB would eat off the crayfish, and some of the panfish fry, and then the HSB would take care of some of the larger panfish. With YP,SBS and RES I wouldn't have any huge spawns of panfish to control. Then every year once I get things settle I could just ladder stock a set amount of YP and SBS to keep the population up. Thoughts? I figured if it failed I could always dump in some LMB and Coppernose. I'd be fine stocking a couple hundred bucks worth of fish in the pond yearly.
