Enjoyed the post and several of the comments and questions. I did a little reading while trying to sort out our stocking for the pond and "everything" I read on ponds with WAE and SAE totally lines up with much in this post about the temps and turbidity for SAE being a better candidate for pond use. I hadn't read anywhere else about the sunfish appetite / control of SAE. The tough part was trying to find a SAE distributor (non-existent) from all of my calls to various hatcheries.

Very nice to see you guys take this on Snipe. At some point in the future I hope to add a few bonus fish in.

If the goal is truly bonus fish with SAE in a farm pond less than 3 acres would you apply the same stocking rate or lower it a tad knowing that some yearly stocking may be needed to get them to stick? I think your first post was fry at 1,000 / ac for existing fisheries.

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