fishin4cars
True friends just call me Larkin
Honestly I can say I have never bought this many fish at one time in all the years I have been keeping fish! But the again, I have never stocked a Acre and a half pond before either. LOL We have had the Dept. of Wildlife and fisheries out, They electrochocked the pond and got a count week before last. findings were, Over stocked with native green sunfish. Over stocked with 1/2-3/4# 9"-11" bass, under stocked with baitfish. So, we seined half the pond and removed 70 bass, and 500-600 of the sunfish. fertilized and limed the pond, added additional brush piles and breeding habitat, and started aggresively feeding the sunfish. Now up to 1.5# of pellets each feeding twice a day. The Biologist set us up with a restocking format and got us in touch with a farm that would assist in the restocking. So I'm heading out shortly to go pick up 4000 fathead minnows (we all call them rosy reds) 100 shell cracker bream, ( Used for snail and bottom weed and crayfish control) (( also they will hybrinize with the green sunfish to help develope larger bream for eating)) 100 Hybrid blugill, ALL Males! these can get 2.5# and are seriously fun to catch, BUT they are sterile, no chance of over populating. 100 Copper nose bream, more aggresive than the green sunfish and are suppose to help keep the green sunfish in check and the copper nose bream gets larger there for better food for the bass. Last but not least we have 25 1-1 3/4 pound tagged Florida F-1 Large mouth bass coming. These were not cheap, well for a natural pond fish they aren't, Actually at $4 each I didn't think that was to bad plus They will come already tagged with ID and a tracking chart to watch individual growth rates as they are caught and released. These should add to the gene pool already established and hopefully add some overall size to the bass population in the years to come. Should be a interesting experince to say the least. I'll try and take some pics.