First I will say thank you to everyone who has commented. I do appreciate everyone's input. I do think Ill take the advice and avoid the Koi in the large (to me) pond. Add a nice small garden one for the wife to add the colorful fish in.
Bill, Thank you for all of that information. Its very helpful. I am brand new to this and I know I only have one solid shot at this.
I do believe the company I was speaking with was going to sell me fingerlings in June from THIS springs spawn.
I have no issue with buying the larger perch and will most likely be doing so given everyone's suggestions on here.
I'm not super pressed about getting the YP massive FAST, just massive. I'm turning 30 in September so I have time to watch them grow. I do have a few direct questions regarding your last post.
1. Are you saying only put three total predators in the pond, 1 LMB, 1 SMB, and CC? OR Just place in only 2 WE?
2. I planned on placing in nearly 15-20 WE to start (at least two falls from now), but I was going to wait until I a few spawns of perch to do so. This is overkill?
The WE size to me less important, but still would be cool to have some bigger ones. To me, a 20" WE is big enough. Id very happy with that size.
3. If I want to be patient with the YP growth, do they HAVE to be pellet trained to grow larger than 14"?
I really would like to stay away from LMB and SMB. I do not want too many of them and I understand just putting one in addresses that concern, I just don't care for them much personally. I'd really like to stick with WE as my main/only predator but I am open to hearing you out on these for sure. If that's unrealistic please let me know.
The HSB do intrigue me. I wouldn't mind those but I have read so much conflicting information on them, I gave up. I read once they take to pellets they stop hunting as much leading to over population and I've read they hunt so much they'll clean you out completely. I'm just not sure what to think of them.
