Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Small bass but "unlimited" food?

Thanks for all of the replies.



This is definitely an interesting situation that is certainly not all bad. There is now a fishing season 12 months a year in the pond, which is nothing to complain about. The main concern I have is what is the best use of the pond in terms of fish and its overall health. In that regard, I can still not think of what my goal is for the pond. It seems that having a decent bass population for eating and a respectable put and take trout fishery are both possible.

This leads me to another question, which seem crazy since there has been a lot, is it worth restocking brown trout, as the population of trout is getting low? I only added 80 four years ago, so I can't imagine too many are left. If I restocked this fall or next spring with the numbers and advice of a local hatchery, would the smaller trout be able to compete with the bass? Finally, can an adult bass like the one pictured above eat an 8-10" trout (the size I would likely stock).

Thanks again for all of the help.

NOTE: I tried to edit the previous photo links, so they might work better now. Sorry for not linking them the other way. Here's a photo of a brown trout I caught this weekend. It looked health and had roe inside, which I found interesting.


[img]http://imgur.com/gallery/ONVmbtr[/img]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/bvXuLev_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium[/img]

(Still can't seem to get the photo linking to work properly. Hope you can click the links and view that way)



I (esshup) put the pic here. The way to do it is click on the "insert image link", then paste the .jpeg information. If it doesn't in .jpeg, the image won't show up.