Originally Posted by CityDad
By nothing else I meant fish wise.

Assume I have the standard ~20% cover.
What happens when you 'overstock' with YoY per normal stocking rates.

I.e. If I purchased a full acre worth of fish from DNR which would consist of 500 Bluegill/RES and 50 Bass (i'd pass on catfish, and maybe stock a small number of males later)

And put these fish in a 1/10 acre pond with an appropriate amoutn of different types of cover.

What happens, like literally?

Without going into much greater detail than a few sentences, I have the answer to that question. You will have 10 times the number of fish in the pond than you should have. That's a density of 5000 BG /acre and 500 LMB/acre. For a time both LMB and BG will be stunted. The BG will outgrow the gape of the LMB fingerlings and offer them no food until they begin reproducing. But eventually enough of the original BG will die off and the BG sizes will improve. You'd probably always have small LMB ... which is a good thing because you won't have big BG if this weren't the case.

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