My wife bought me a sub this year and we read every word the first day it shows up, Great mag. We built a 1+ acre pond last sept, stocked it with LMB, bluegill, fatheads, & channel. We feed our gills and channel, but our bass rarely will take the floating food. We started saining crawdads, catching jars full of grasshoppers and buying night crawlers for our bass. They feed on all of these just as fast as you drop em in the water, what a kick.. We started going out in our boat to feed them and they follow us all around the pond, several will take a worm right out of your hand when you hang it in the water. This whole experance has been a life long dream for us and we are loving every minute of it. Now for my questions. We just finished construction on our second pond it will be 2+ acres (not full yet). We are located in South central Kansas, 20 mile from Oklahoma line. The pond averages 10-12 feet deep, is sandy dirt on the surface with clay as you get deeper and shale in the deepest bottom. There is a small spring that feeds it with additional run off from natural grass land. We added 5 big cedar trees to the bottom, tied down with cinder blocks, we have about 200 more cinder blocks we intend on scattering, and the water will flood about 20 cedar trees about 1 foot deep. We intend on dumping a semi load of 1-2 inch rock along one bank, and scattering a couple semi loads of sand alond the remainder of that bank. We would like to stock this pond with Wiper, Walleye, Smallmouth,and Tilapia. Will this mix work for us?? I have read everything I can find on this sight regarding Walleye & SMB, I understand crawfish and frogs for the SMB, and I understand fatheads will only last a couple years before they are all eaten, so what do we stock for forage for the Walleye & Wipers? Can we get the Wipers, SMB & Walleye to feed on floating food?
