Any tips on this? I was told to wait a few weeks and stock minnows and then wait a time period to stock larger fish.

I'm in Bee county... should I wait for it to get warmer or does it matter? I was going to stock Bluegill, bass and channel cats but I read somewhere that catfish can take over.

TIA

March is best time. You can't stock when it is to warm.

What type.

You cant mix bass and catfish... Your bass will only get as big as what they can eat. 1 bag of life crawfish will do wonders for an eco system and especially bass. I use to bring home most all of my 1 and 2lb bass and throw them in the golf course pond. Just make sure your bringng in a mix of male and females... A mess of perch and minnows will definitely help. You may have to feed them for a while...

You have a few choices when it comes to ionizing fish. The easiest is probably either electron impact or photoionization, depending on how powerful your laser is and what wavelength it operates at. Laser desorption/ionization works well. Fast atom bombardment would work but the fish wouldn't survive the glycerol.

AggieChemist said:

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You have a few choices when it comes to ionizing fish. The easiest is probably either electron impact or photoionization, depending on how powerful your laser is and what wavelength it operates at. Laser desorption/ionization works well. Fast atom bombardment would work but the fish wouldn't survive the glycerol.

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Smart ass. I am keeping an eye on you

robbio said:

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Any tips on this? I was told to wait a few weeks and stock minnows and then wait a time period to stock larger fish.

I'm in Bee county... should I wait for it to get warmer or does it matter? I was going to stock Bluegill, bass and channel cats but I read somewhere that catfish can take over.

TIA

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first question is how big is your pond?

In '12, after the drought broke, our pond filled and we put in several lbs of fathead minnows. Waited 3 months then added a few hundred coppernose bluegills and 100 redears and 50 channelcat.

We couldn't source fingerling bass till that fall due to huge demand. Put in 35 bass then. 2 years later we caught bass weighing 4 lbs and nice cats.

Only last year did we catch the first redear.

I always thought it would be cool to have a pond full of gold fish.
Go out and throw some feed in and watch them come up to feed.
I'd do that instead.

chris1515 said:

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I always thought it would be cool to have a pond full of gold fish.
Go out and throw some feed in and watch them come up to feed.
I'd do that instead.

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My cousin had a neighbor that did that in a backyard ornamental pond. Turned out some of them were koi that grew into nice specimens. They sold the house with the fish in the pond. The next owner decided to demo the pond, but before he did he found someone to buy the fish. Turns out some people will pay a lot of money for weird looking koi

Stock minnows and bluegill this year. Wait until next year to stock the bass fingerlings at 50 per acre. This will give time for the bluegill to grow and spawn a year so that the small bass won't eat them all before they get big enough.

It takes patience but it's worth it. Should have breeding bass with some large ones in there 3 years from now. 4 years from now you'll have to start removing bass.

https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2020/04/08/when-stocking-ponds-with-fish-stick-to-the-process/

Had the same thoughts. Here's what I read.

1/2 acre. Average depth is 4 feet

chris1515 said:

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I always thought it would be cool to have a pond full of gold fish.
Go out and throw some feed in and watch them come up to feed.
I'd do that instead.

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I bet the cormorants would love them.

TI put tilipia, fat head minnows, and shiner fry in my 8 acre lake for forage.
Tilipia overwinter most years and get to be 2-3 pounds.

I get a box of 250,000 shiner fry sent every spring from Anderson Minnow Farm in Arkansas.
They get about 12" long.
https://andersonminnows.com/shop/product/golden-shiner-fry-250000-count-2/

There is a crawfish farm about 5 miles from me. They stop harvesting the week after July4 and are much cheaper the last week.
I bought 3 sacks and put in to boost the forage. I have a lot of herons and egrets as a result.

My goal was to raise 5+ bass and 50 pound blue cats.
Bass were easy
Bluecats got to 30+ and alligators moved in before I noticed -and had them leave. They wiped out the big blues.

Also have channel cats, crappie and various perch varieties.
Had hybrid stripers for a while. Don't recommend them.

We've also caught fish like bowfin, gaspergou, and also large eels that swam up a ditch into the lake.

Burdizzo said:

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AggieChemist said:

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You have a few choices when it comes to ionizing fish. The easiest is probably either electron impact or photoionization, depending on how powerful your laser is and what wavelength it operates at. Laser desorption/ionization works well. Fast atom bombardment would work but the fish wouldn't survive the glycerol.

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Smart ass. I am keeping an eye on you

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chris1515 said:

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I always thought it would be cool to have a pond full of gold fish.
Go out and throw some feed in and watch them come up to feed.
I'd do that instead.

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When I was a kid, I started digging a "pond" in the back yard. Once I had gotten it about 6 feet wide and a couple feet deep, my dad kicked my ass (we lived in the country, so it really didn't matter). He brought home a backhoe the next day and dug a pond with an island (I guess he felt bad). Once it filled up with water, we put our goldfish we won at the church fair in. 6 months later, we had 8-12" goldfish we'd catch with bent straight pins, bread, and dental floss. Good times. Hurricane Alicia came, and the neighbor saw them swimming outside her house, even though we had a 6 foot berm around the pond.

Pondboss.com is a good source of information

I think you meant to say you are going to be keeping an ion him?

bamaBass YouTube channel documented him building his 5 acre pond. Just added bait fish.

Where in Bee County? We stocked a 4 acre lake in the area with bass and catfish and it did great with healthy populations of each. Sadly it went dry around 2009 or so right as it was getting good.

I also stocked a 1 acre pond with minnows, perch, and hybrid blues. A year or so later I added ~25 bass 6" bass. That was 4 years ago and I can catch big catfish all day long but I haven't caught a bass yet. With a pond that size I'd stick with one or the other, and probably cats. Get they hybrid blues from Henneke in Halletsville. They are supposedly sterile so its easier to keep the population under control. That said, there are multiple generations of catfish in our little pond which hadn't been stocked for decades before I did it but there could have had a few fish it before I stocked it.

Papalote. Thanks for the input.

Burdizzo said:

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chris1515 said:

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I always thought it would be cool to have a pond full of gold fish.
Go out and throw some feed in and watch them come up to feed.
I'd do that instead.

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My cousin had a neighbor that did that in a backyard ornamental pond. Turned out some of them were koi that grew into nice specimens. They sold the house with the fish in the pond. The next owner decided to demo the pond, but before he did he found someone to buy the fish. Turns out some people will pay a lot of money for weird looking koi

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I know of the same set up out towards west Texas. Wife wanted a water feature and husband built about a 12 X 24 pit and lined it. Bought several dozen small koi. The daughters have inherited it and they have 20 or so huge koi, some have to be worth $500-800 conservatively apparently. They can't bring themselves to sell them because they were "mom's". I would have no problem.

We had a damn koi pond in our backyard when we moved in. Finally the blue herons ate them all.