DC70 - Your idea of fish combination for your location should work well. HSB will be compatable with the other fish you plan to stock. However, I would not stock the HSB until the others, your key part of the fishery, have had time to be reproducing and become established. Initially don't over stock number of HSB per acre (5-10/ac) unless you regulary feed pellets. As you probably have learned from readings here, you always want ample forage or small fish available as a backbone to feed the predators (in your case lg YP, SMB, some HSB). Shiners would be a good addition early in the stocking history. You can always add more HSB if needed or desired. With your chosen combination, if you ever decide you want BG & LMB they can always be added later and they will eventually (5-8 yrs after intro) become the dominate two fish species in the pond - they always do.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 12/21/08 12:00 PM.
