Pond stocking?

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*if there are no fish in pond great...if there are fish in the pond the fish need to go
*purchase fathead minnows and which ever type "bream" you want
*feed those stocked fish
*aerate the pond if you can but can go without
*one year or more after the above purchase the bass strain you desire

Purchased our stockers from fish farm in Maurice La.

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If you’re starting off fresh, no fish in the water, stock with minnows first, then wait a while, then break, then wait a while then bass. Have enough structure for your brim to hide if not the bass will wipe them out quick and the pond won’t be self-sustainable.

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Dunns Fish Farm

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We do not advocate stocking crappie in ponds
smaller than 50 acres. But many ponds have crappie already, and many people do not wish to renovate the pond and stock the recommended species.
Although bass and bream ponds may produce good
fishing with crappie for several years after stocking,
the eventual result is a pond with small, skinny bass,
small, skinny crappie, and small, skinny bream.
If you have a pond with crappie, you can
manage it to produce decent crappie fishing.
?e secret is to maintain a population of many
small bass, which eat most of the crappie reproduction. ?us, the few crappie that survive can
grow to larger sizes. But you will not grow many
large bass using this approach. Catch and remove
all largemouth bass that are longer than 15
inches, and return all smaller bass to the pond.
Fish for crappie often, and never throw a crappie
back in the pond. If bass catch rates decline or crappie appear skinny and slow growing, stock 35 to 50
bass (10 to 12 inches long) per acre to eat more
crappie. If possible, use a drawdown every winter to
concentrate the fish and make it easier for bass to
catch and eat crappie

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I was told it is because crappie spawn so early that their young eat the bass and bream fry when they spawn. Was also told that bass won’t eat crappie more than a couple of inches long because of the spines.

And judging from a couple of personal experiences, you don’t have to stock crappie to end up with crappie.

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