Paddlefish do serve the purpose of a bonus fish although you may rarely see them. Paddlefish should live okay in a 3 acre Ohio pond that has a warm season algae bloom. Growth will be determined on the composition of the zooplankton community. I would not stock any more than 1 to 1.3 per acre.
Ask the fish farm if they are pellet trained then you are more likely to regularly see them and monitor them. There might be some info on YouTube of how to catch them. There is a picture in the Sept-Oct 2020 issue of Pond Boss magazine of one of the PB moderators who caught a large one. Did not hear how he did that.

Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/28/20 07:56 PM.

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