My friend has a pond which he will be using for trout, smallmouth and walleye. He wants to start a forage base. His water never gets over 59 degrees. What type of minnow would spawn in such a pond and make good forage for these types of fish.
Smelt!
Not technically a minnow of course.
Doubt you'd get a viable population in the pond anyway.
Why not stock with trout and feed pellets?
Of course, that's what I would do. His pond is what my dream pond would be. We are individuals though and my neighbor has a craving for walleye and smallies as well as the trout.
He could cut his flow off to warm the water for spawning of minnows but really quite impractical, he'd lose his stream and he is going to be putting trout in this little stream, it's going to be quite neat. Picture the trout in a Cabela's you might have gone to swimming about the stream though out the store.
On the water temp, I was just shocked to see two artesian wells put out water that is 7.5 degrees different in temperature while only being 200 yards apart at the head.
I guess some yellow perch are in order with some rocky outlays to hold the crayfish.
