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Here are the stocking rates that I used for my pond. Again, it is just under 2 acres and about 19 feet deep.
October 2018 - 20lbs. of FHM and 1000 Northern Crayfish March 2019 - 100 RES (2-3") and 20lbs. of Golden Shiners (3") May 2019 - 30lbs. of FHM October 2019 - 100 SMB (4-5"), 200 YP (3-4"), and 50 WE (4-5")
If I had it to do over again, I would wait another 6 months to a year to put in my predator fish and let my forage base absolutely explode and would bet that I'd be ahead by this point in the game as far as growth is concerned. My forage base grew incredibly, but man did those fish put a hurting on them. I stopped trapping FHM in about a year. To this day there is still a great population of GSH of all sizes as well as crawdads, but they have certainly been working on them as I will cover later. I certainly believe it is true that you can never have enough food in your pond for your predators!
Here are a few pictures of my fish and some of the giant crawdads the pond was producing. I've also included a link to the crawdads desperately trying to grab some of the floating fish food as the wind pushes it by. It's always entertaining to watch them.
