No - I think this fits the topic fine.
We can skip ahead a bit and discuss the overall management strategy at a high level and then dig in a bit on #2 (I'll give my ponds names later...but right now I'll keep em as numbers to keep it simple).
First, to answer your questions:
- Water will be runoff and pumped in from a creek.
- Not sure on volume of runoff - but I can get 500GPM with my pump from the creek
- I could pull the water out, but it is deep - I think I know where your going based on my read of the male BG PB articles and some other posts...but I've got a slightly different idea - The main reason I don't want to pull the water down much is because I am building my cabin on the ridge above this pond...so the view will matter too.
OK, here is the 50K foot overview of the plan for each pond.
Pond #2 - as we already know will be trophy BG and "a-grade" feed trained largemouth.
Pond #3 - This will be my trophy LMB pond - all florida genetics with a focus on the foodchain for the bass - I have no intention to fish this pond until there are 10lb+ bass...maybe I'll get a mess of CNBG or some tilapia to have a fish fry...but no LMB fishing.
Pond #1 - This will be my setup pond - I plan to put in cages and grow out BG and feed trained LM....and then I am kicking around the idea of doing some HSB outside of the cages since the cages will be along the perimeter of the pond and the HSB can utilize the open water.
CC � channel cats�not much else to say here.
So, the plan for #2 is that I was going to set up some cages in #1 and grow out BG and feed trained bass for a season or two so that I can select the best 10-20% to move into #2. Then, get rid of the rest from the cages and start over�constantly moving the best fish into #2. I may also doa cage of Florida LMB as try to do some pre-selection to get the ones that seem to be taking off the best.
The idea with #2 is that I want to keep pellets as the forage. I know the LMB will reproduce and the BG will eat some of them�.the ones that make it I will get out by electro-survey and keeping 100% of non-stocked fish.
Think I�m gonna hit the sack�.I was up at 4:30 this morning to go fishing.
