Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain recommendations for northern YP/SMB/BT pond

Thanks again for all the input. I'm hoping for the same success as those above and many others on here. A 10" perch every 10-20 seconds would certainly be a dream come true. I would be content with one very 20 minutes.

Here are a few photos of the 72,000 lbs of stone that I put in as part of my structure plan. My pond is dug, not dammed, so I was able to leave a peninsula behind and lined it with stone that was between 3-48". I still need to spread some of it out to fill in the bald areas. I purposefully made the edges of the peninsula steep.

There is also a rock bar that is about 2' high and 3-4' wide made of 6-12" stone. That should be good habitat for the paper shell crayfish I hope, and was purposefully placed where the entire length of it can be reached by casting from the peninsula. I added four 20' wide by 1-2' tall rock piles as well, and have another one or two to go in before it's full. Next up will be the SMB spawning areas and the pea gravel beach.


View of the peninsula, rock bar and rock piles.



Rocks lining the peninsula.

All the stone was placed after the pond was pumped nearly dry. I was able to drive down into the basin with my 12 ton "wheelbarrow".