Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Swimming / fishing pond

Moved into my new home last week and have a bit over a half acre 6 month old kidney bean shaped pond dug at 1/3 ratio. About 18 foot in the deepest part. We love to swim and will want to use the pond for that, but I'm also a fan of eating fish. LMB are fun to catch, but I don't really want to eat them. I am considering doing a Walleye / YP pond with 20 lbs of fatheads that will have most of the summer to reproduces as sole occupants of the pond (have good structure for them hoping for survival but who knows) until this fall when YP / WE go in. YP are pellet trained and considering continuing that to increase table yield. I will aerate with (1 or 2?) bottom diffuser(s).

I know the gold standard for ponds is Bluegill / LMB. I hate swimming in a bluegill pond though, the little bastards are always nipping at you, so I'm trying to stay away from them. I'm assuming this will work, but not sure how well I guess. I don't really expect reproduction from WE, and I somewhat ok with that so I can manage their population better. I wonder about their teeth though, a nibble from a BG is one thing, a walleye wouldn't be fun though. How are they in a swimming pond?

TLDR How are WE YP in a swimming pond. Will they leave me alone. Any fish to add / avoid in a pond meant for swimming as much as fishing.

Thanks.

Definitely stay away from BG, I got talked into stocking some HBG into our pond. Big mistake. They nip swimmers worse than regular BG, and they reproduce like crazy. We swim in our pond a lot. We kept the banks steep to limit plant growth. It means it’s more difficult to climb out of. 90% of entrance exit is off the ladder on the dock. We have YP and SMB. The combination with golden shiners and RES works great. If I wouldn’t have put in the HBG, we would have the best of both worlds. (Swimming and fishing). And YES, the YP are delicious and very easy to clean. My FHM were cleaned out by year three (as mentioned above). Both the YP and the SMB are working hard on the shiners. I added three more cedar trees last week for more cover, and increased feed times on the TX Hunter feeder. Trying to keep shiner population stable.
There’s nothing better than floating in the pond after mowing for a few hours, on a hot day.

The Bluegill are getting a bad rap here.
I understand the problem, nipping of people, not sure it's the Bluegill that are guilty here though.

It's more likely the Hybrid-bluegill, and more importantly their offspring - the Green-sunfish, that is mistaken for Bluegill.
The man made Hybrid-bluegill are 1/2 Bluegill, 1/2 Green sunfish, their offspring are, all Green-sunfish. Those are the nippers.

Stay away from the Hybrids, if you want an enjoyable swimming pond.

Good info to know, Thanks. I think I'm gonna just try perch / WE and see how it goes.