Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait Yellow grub in fathead minnow pond

Two things come to mind.
1) IF the pond is a duck pond, i.e. for puddle ducks, then it's shallow. Fatheads can survive the winter, but maybe NOT the RES because the water will be too cold in the winter.
2) Go ahead and stock the FHM in the main pond. BUT, make sure you have a good population of RES in the main pond. The FHM shouldn't transfer the grubs directly to the bass, they get transferred to a wading bird when eaten. If the snails are controlled in the main pond, the infestation won't be re-occurring there. i.e. a grub doesn't go from fish to fish.

Also, the FHM will only be big enough to sustain LMB up to about 8"-9", bigger bass need to eat larger fish to make up for calories expended in catching the forage fish.

RES WILL eat FHM, but they also eat snails. so I'd stock them in the forage pond. You could always use "Z" traps in the duck pond, and catch RES too to transfer to the main pond.