Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose New pond Ontario Canada.

Well we are getting the pond filled up now with the rain from Sandy.

We are filling the pond with water from a nere by drainage ditch. My water fall pump is 5500 gph and we are using it to fill the pond. The pond is more like .5 to .7 surface acre. This is being calculated off of how it is taking 3 hours to raise the water level 1" with 5500 gph pump.

Stocking population:

300 yellow perch pellet trained.
How many Northern Red belly dace to stock same time?

4 walleye next fall replace as fished out.


My question is can I stock the fish this fall now or wait till spring now?
What size of Red belly dace to stock and how many? I expect stocking the pellet trained YP the red dace will get time to start re populating.

Pond is void of any plants. Just a few frogs here and there. Will stock with crayfish mid summer next year when we can catch them.

Any guidance or thoughts on my numbers or other feed minnows I should add?

Cheers Don.