12-07-2007, 02:47 PM
The warmer months are better for stocking ponds. If you transfer fish from one place to another, and the water temp is drastically different, it will kill the fish. During the warmer months when the fish's metabolism increases, their tolerance for water temp differences is much higher.
Just like tubeN2 said, I wouldn't recomend adding a pike or jack fish to your pond. And if you did, just one. They'll not only eat the bass, but the bream too. Use minnows on a bobber rig to catch the smaller bass and either transport them to a larger body of water, clean and eat them, or scratch them off as a casualty of war.
I would recomend you add white crappie to your list of fish species, as well as blue gills only. With that said, once you get the bass under control, start adding structure to the pond if there isn't some already. As in previous posts, christmas trees are a great natural habbitat for crappie and bream when sunk in a deep or moderately deep hole.
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Just like tubeN2 said, I wouldn't recomend adding a pike or jack fish to your pond. And if you did, just one. They'll not only eat the bass, but the bream too. Use minnows on a bobber rig to catch the smaller bass and either transport them to a larger body of water, clean and eat them, or scratch them off as a casualty of war.
I would recomend you add white crappie to your list of fish species, as well as blue gills only. With that said, once you get the bass under control, start adding structure to the pond if there isn't some already. As in previous posts, christmas trees are a great natural habbitat for crappie and bream when sunk in a deep or moderately deep hole.
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