re: Pond advice

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well your pond is only 3/4 of an acre and that is going to take some work to sustain! actually, its a money pit. But if your loaded you can keep enough flat heads supplemented it will produce some catfish over time. 4500 aint crap. your gonna have to drop 10lbs a month of flat heads in there from now till October to. You put 600 fish in a 3/4 acre pond is way overpopulated. Your biggest problem is keeping them fed. Id also suggest supplement a floating catfish food. Thats a lot of mouths to feed and expect growth too. Honest opinion is you messed up.

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Some of y’all over complicate things. People who have no idea what they are doing have success with fish and small ponds all the time. Coworker stocked his maybe 1 acre pond with white perch, bass, and bream. He adds 10-20 pounds of minnows a year, 1 bag of crawfish and occasionally feeds the bream. Pond isn’t even 10 ft deep. I’ve fished small ponds way less managed than even that and caught damn good fish. Coworker added these fish probably 15 years ago and we pull 3-5lb bass, nice white perch out of there. Only negative is bream have gotten small, he put coppernose in. Leave cover in there and don’t try and make it all pretty and fish will be fine. Worst case if catfish mess it up, catch them all out and don’t restock with anymore. Other pond I fish has damn good bream and catfish, just have to restock catfish every year