Glad to finally be on here with actual ponds to fish and maintain. We have two ponds. One is rather small and was originally to be back filled with dirt from big pond. However as time went by I found a few trash bream from a creek and threw them in. Well needless to say it's full of them now and the kids have fun catching them. The big pond is roughly 2 acres and I just added 4 pounds of minnows and 100?" Bluegill to start. Of course budget is always the clincher on what and how many to add at a time lol. Next time the fish truck comes to town I will add more.... work in progress. I also maintain a full time job, keep and rescue bees. We have 20 acres and hope to be semi self sufficient upon retirement. There's chickens, rabbits, pigs, horses etc lol . I need more time to finish it all