Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Oregon Pond Initial Stocking

Personally I feel the BG/PS numbers that they want to stock are way low. 1) If you have any mortality on stocking, that really drops the numbers. 2) BG and PS will interbreed, and create hybrids.

If the LMB are stocked now, ask the hatchery what will they be eating? Ask the hatchery what length they will be in 12 months. Doing that will allow you to check to see how they are arriving at that low of a stocking rate. LMB need to eat 10# of fish to gain one pound, and that doesn't take into consideration that a fingerling bass needs to eat fish to just survive, then tack on 10 more pounds of fish to gain the pond of weight PER BASS.

Here, LMB don't spawn in the Fall, they spawn when water temps warm up to the upper 60's/low 70's in teh Spring, usually around the full moon in May.

You didn't say how big the BG/PS would be at stocking. You did say adults, but what size (length) are they considering adults? So , they are saying stock 15 BG and 15 PS.

Are there any minnow species available for stocking?

here in the midwest, our stocking rates are exponentially higher than that.

I second the question of what is your water temp going to be? How many days will it be between 65°F and 85°F per year?