Originally Posted by esshup
Dave, my experience with them is just the opposite, they ate every last YOY fry from RES and YP that were spawned. In this particular pond there were no bass to act as predators, the customer wanted to stock the panfish at 50% recommended rate and let them reproduce in the pond before stocking the LMB. He didn't know that he had GSF in there - it was a wet spot in the woods that he turned into a pond.

Found out that if the woods flooded, there are GSF in the ditch next to the woods and they swarmed into the woods from the ditch.

I believe that the problem was not stocking the correct amount of fish in the first place, and waiting too long to put predators in there. The GSF were 2.5" long and full of eggs.

esshup,

From the sounds of it, it may be risky to add LMB fingerlings in 2" to 3" sizes. Is the plan to stock advanced fingerlings when the predators go in?

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