Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait spotfin shiner

Thanks for the further explanation. Since I will likely release any SFS directly into the pond, I will probably never know where they spawn (if they do). I already have some dead spruce trees and sycamore logs in the pond, so the SFS may spawn there. I have some old lava rocks that were given to me, so I cannot see any harm in adding them too. Right now, the water is frozen up, and I am hoping the past snow cover on top of the ice did not kill fish. In my LMB/BG pond, this happened pretty heavily once a while back, and to a lesser degree a second time. The more severe winter kill eliminated CC in that pond, which was OK with me. Next job will to frost seed some switchgrass on the new dam (waterside) of the 4th pond when it looks like the weather will cycle from below freezing to above freezing. Will also start some plugs in case the frost seeding fails.