We took a look at the fish in the new pond. About everything we put in last spring was 3"-4" long besides the minnows and shiners.
We had put FHM and GS the year before as soon as the water had some depth, the minnows really blew up with what looked like milions coming up to the feed last year. Also added some crawdads and hand fed a few days a week all through summer into fall.

The fishing goal in this pond is to have a good smallmouth and perch fishery.
Pretty much everything the boys threw at them they hit quickly, minnows/jigs/little spinners. Almost everything was perch...caught a few walleye.

Perch were all 8"+
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Walley were 12"
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Crappie are hand size...none of those went back in. Put 25 BC in last spring (in hind sight I wouldn't have) caught 14...eleven to go. Trying to get as many out now as we can before they spawn.
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Didn't catch any of the SM, did see some RES under the dock but they didn't bite at all and seemed shy, they looked around 6".

The perch were just nuts biting constantly, saw a lot of schools of different size minnows swimming around the edges and a few little schools of shiners.