Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose STRIPED BASS!!!

Been alot of talk on the Hybrids, but what does any one know of regular land-locked stirpers? Thes fish live alot longer and grow alot bigger? Being that I have 30 ft of water, I wonder how they would do? Also, the state of Georgia seems to be stocking these things in all the public waters instead of hybrids. They use to stock Hybrids, but now they are changing over to regular stripers..

I am not sure how well they would survive, but they would surely ruin the balance of the pond. One reason so many are being stocked in the larger resivoirs is to control the shad population. The striped bass is a voracious feeder, that is why they reach the size they do in such short time. They are stocked in the larger river systems to cut the shad population, and since they don't breed very well in most rivers, they don't become a problem.

Stripers would be worse than flathead catfish.

Well pond balance is all of someones point of view what I am finding out more and more....I am wondering if they would even survive? Also I am wondering if I can't get some to stock...It seems like one heck of a fish to me!!

I forget the reservoir, it might have been Cherokee, but it was definitely in Tennessee. Anyway, some interesting research on stripers was conducted there several years back. They were having high mortality rates with the stripers, and it was determined to be caused by starvation!! How's that?? Not the voracious striper. Well....the high, summer water temperatures drove the stripers to the deeper, cooler waters of the reservoir- nearly void of oxygen. The shad were determined to literally be swimming above them in the water column, but the stripers didn't want to deal with the warmer water. Instead, they stayed cool and many starved to death.

On another note, stripers in landlocked reservoirs in the south have high mortality rates in the summer due to catch and release fishing. The heat, stress, and fatigue are often too much for a summer caught striper to overcome. It's been recommended to harvest a summer caught striper (if it's of legal length) because chances are it will expire within a few days anyway.