re: Adding crawfish to supplement a pond

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True, mostly online stuff I wonder if I should still put coppernose in there or wait?

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I should have asked, did your Uncle stock “fingerling” bream, bass and black perch this past summer that he obtained from a fish hatchery, or did put in some random low number of larger “mature” fish that he or someone else caught by “hook and line” (fishing).

If the latter, I’d personally work on the assumption that the fish your Uncle added this summer may not have made it, and then yes, I’d stock fingerling coppernose bluegill and redear sunfish combo in Nov or Dec, followed by bass fingerlings in May/June. If you want to add channel catfish for variety, add those this winter as well along with the bluegill and redear.

I’d suggest you get a water sample from the pond, but not after a heavy rain, have it analyzed by a pool store for hardness, alkalinity and pH. If the pond is located in the piney woods area of central LA then hardness and alkalinity might be low and the pond might require liming prior to fertilization in the spring. If alkalinity is low, add agricultural limestone this winter (takes several months to chemically react). A pond that is low in alkalinity and pH will not properly respond to additions of fertlizer when the water warms in spring.