Hey guys, trying to get a plan together for the pond this year. Last year I stocked some BG, RES, and unfortunately a few Green sunfish as well. I also dumped around 8-9 pounds of FHM in the pond. After that we had about 2-3 months before we started experiencing our drought. Before the water levels started dropping in the fall I noticed a few spawning BG beds so I'm assuming we had some reproduction last year. Now i'm wondering when to start adding some SMB and HSB. Since my pond is small (1/3-1/2 acre) I plan on just bucket stocking these from local water ways. Is this spring too early to start throwing a few predators in? Or should I let the BG get some more spawns off before dumping in predators later this year?
