This is a very good, in fact excellent forum for pond management and growing sportfish. Since your NY pond receives "high wind" this will tend to mix warm surface water deeper into your shallow pond thus killing your trout which will usually happen in late June, July, August. In exceptionally cool summers you could get some trout to survive in those years, but this would be the exception not a common occurrence. If you are really a die hard trout lover and trout are relatively low cost compared to other similar sized sport fish, you can feasibly stock trout each year and grow them to very respectable, fun catching and eating sizes as I noted in my post above.
You did not mention what other fish you have in this pond. They could help or hinder the quality of your recreational put and take trout population. What is the average month to month clarity of the water in your pond? Also how are you managing the filamentous string algae (FA) in the pond. BE VERY careful when dealing chemically to manage the FA problems. Trout are extremely sensitive to copper based algaecides.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 04/11/20 08:32 PM.
