Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Under stocking a lake

In my experience doing that, it didn't work because there were GSF in the pond that the owner didn't know about. Two years down the road I drained and rotenoned the pond and the ONLY fish that were in there were the GSF and the stocked fish. Absolutely zero offspring from the stocked fish, and they were large enough to reproduce. The stocked fish were stocked at 50% of the recommended rate.

Starting out with a very limited amount of fish, you have to be darn sure that there are absolutely zero predators in there. Stocking it at that low rate will also add years to the time frame when the pond can be utilized as a fishing pond.

I'd say you couldn't stock any bass in there for 3 years. Stocking them earlier would slow down the process greatly.