I stocked my small pond with fathead minnows and coppernose bluegill in April of 2006. A year later, the pond is literally full of minnows and bluegill. When they spawn, they really SPAWN!!!!
I can drag a net through that pond and catch dozens of them every time. It's been my source of stocker fish for my big pond for the last several months.
In a years time, You will have all the feeder fish you will ever need. Especially without any preditors to keep there numbers down.
My goals are very similar to yours as I just added 5,000 more fish to my pond last week. I'll keep adding more from my small pond over the year, but won't introduce the bass until the end of Spring 2008.
Eddie
