Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose odd inquiry for those of y'all on large properties

I've been following along watching this one and I'm confused. Is the pond 1.25 or 2 acres?

Is it possible to provide the electro survey results and/or any recommendations that were made?

I'm definitely not a pro here. Every time I've heard about people adding additional LMB to a pond it's been more for genetic refresh. Adding more into an existing pond they can do on their own through spawning. If the LMB have been in there for 2yrs they should be capable of spawning on their own. It seems like a very short window for the need on a genetic refresh.

If it takes 10lbs of forage for a LMB to gain 1lb, and you have 100 LMB that's 1,000lbs of forage. Once they have pulled off a spawn it would be mind boggling to calculate how many made it through and how much forage is needed to maintain them.

Here are a couple of pics from my place last year. I caught one of our original stockers on 09.23.24. Had a nice thick back, tail was thick but the stomach looked a little thin to me.



I could see forage in the water of what I thought was the appropriate size, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why the LMB were looking a little on the thin side. Rather than fight it I did the only thing I could think of that would help despite what I thought I was seeing with my own eyes. Adding forage of the appropriate size to the LMB I was trying to push through. We ended up adding 150lbs of Golden Shiners and 400 2-3" BG correct what I thought was a problem.

Here's a second pic approx 1 month later. It was the last fish I caught for year, of similar size but note the belly....No longer seeing the recessed or drawn in condition from the pic above.



If you feed them....they will grow. If you add more LMB and you already have a shortage of forage...they won't. Hope this helps in your quest for a few larger fish.