Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Our new1/2 acre pond is filling!

I'm assuming the pond was just completed. CW suggests stocking your forage species when the pond is 1/2 or 2/3 full. If you get that depth this Summer, putting in BG and FHM mid-season would let them start spawning (FHM anyway - BG if adults were stocked) and building a forage base. But commercial fingerlings can be hard to get sometimes in HOT weather because shipping them is so difficult.

I think I'd try to get FHM going ASAP this Summer, even if I had to transport them myself with a big cooler, ice to hold temps down, and a 12vdc (livewell type?) aerator. This would be betting a smaller amount of $ on forage startup than trying BG at the same time. The double whammy of hot weather shipping AND BG trying to find food in a brand new pond would deter me from adding BG real soon, but Fatheads I'd be willing to risk. Since you are up North, I would stock BG and LMB next Spring.