Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Supplier for A New SMB/YP Pond in Northern AZ

FHM will only feed fish up to around 10" or so. Larger fish than that need a larger forage base so they aren't expending more calories to catch the fish than they get from catching it. Remember that fish don't catch a meal every time they try to catch one.

Make sure you have spawning habitat available at the correct time and I think you'd be OK with 10# of each species per surface acre as a minimum. Again, it all depends on how fast you want the fish to grow and what else they have in there to eat.

If the fish in the pond are eating primarily other fish for forage, to grow 150 SMB from fingerling to 1# each, they will have to eat approximately 1500# of minnows.........

A customer stocked his 4 ac pond with 100# of Fatheads and 100# of Golden Shiners. That was 5 years ago and he still has Golden Shiners reproducing in his pond. SMB/YP/HBG/RES pond. SMB aren't growing as fast as expected, we will change up the genetics this Fall with some SMB from Snipe. He feeds the fish in the pond Optimal Bluegill/Bass food, and feeds approximately 1/2 pallet per year. He will start ice fishing shortly and I will hopefully have some pictures to share.