Everything To Know About Feeding Fish In Your Pond - Pond & Lake Management Tutorial 

Sounds like a great idea, has it worked out?

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Take out about 20-50 12 inch bass. Should help

@@TaylorMorris-zi5ou Thank you, will do that.

Lime your lake and put lots of blue gills in

For a trophy bass fishery, you need to stock around 2,000 Bluegill and 500 Redear per acre. You will need mostly Fathead Minnows along with the Bluegill and Redear to start. A small portion of Golden Shiners is also an option. If you are asking about Grass Carp specifically, they mainly eat submerged vegetation and typically do not touch algae. We would avoid stocking Grass Carp until you have a vegetation issue...and even then, we would recommend a herbicide spot treatment before stocking Grass Carp. Thank you for commenting and watching our videos!

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We would recommend our AC Trophy Pond feed for Bluegill. The contents are largely based on the diet needs for Bluegill. It is great for most species that will eat pelleted food but is largely based around Bluegill diets. The number of bags required for a 25-acre lake is going to be different for every lake. To start we typically recommend 1 fish feeder for every 3 acres of water. So you could have up to 8 feeders running on a lake that size, but you certainly don’t have to use that many to see a benefit to supplemental feed. Ultimately, you will want to let the fish tell you how much food they will eat. If the lake is Bluegill deficient you would go through less feed than a lake that is Bluegill dominant. Our Valparaiso, Indiana office will have AC Trophy Pond Feed throughout the year if you are looking to purchase. This is a hard forum to really get into the details of a custom feed program for your water body. If you would like, give us a call and we would be happy to walk you through a proper feeding program. Our number is 800-753-5253.

Typically Green Sunfish and Bullheads are going to make Largemouth Bass management pretty tricky. We would typically renovate the pond and start over. If that is not an option, we would recommend harvesting as many Bullheads as you can and stock some Bluegill at the same time you stock the Largemouth Bass.

Yes, we stock 3-4” or 3-5” Bluegill regularly in existing ponds and have good success with it, but it has to be paired with bass harvest. If you are hand feeding, make sure you are feeding at the same time every day and be consistent with it. If you are doing that and they still don’t seem interested after a little while then you likely don’t have a high number of Bluegill. When the pond has a lower Bluegill population there is very little competition for food. They don’t need that supplemental food. When you have a balanced population of Bluegill there is more competition and the supplemental food becomes easier than looking for the natural food in the pond and you end up with more Bluegill eating the feed. Thanks for the question!

@@aquaticcontrol that makes sense! Thanks for the reply, I am most likely going to add about 2,000 more blue gill that are not babies but still very young. Still haven’t decided about feeding them or not. I’m worried that if I feed them, anytime I walk up to the pond to start fishing, there’s going to be a swarm of bluegill in front of me eating whatever touches the water. It turns into “catching” not “fishing” at that point. Is there a way for preventing that kind of thing from happening? Thanks for the help!

​@ethanguidry312 maybe use an automatic deer feeder

Don't feed unless water temps over 50

If you have a feeder, start out slow and they should eventually figure out. They will eventually associate the sound of the feeder going off with the food source. If you are hand feeding you’ll want to be as consistent as possible on the time of day that you feed and the area that you feed. Water temp will play a role too, if you are north and water temps have not warmed up then you’ll want to wait before starting. If there is already enough natural food in the system and the Bluegill (or whatever species you are hoping to feed, remember not all species will feed train) population is fairly low, then they don’t really need the feed and won’t eat much of it.

The main consequence is adding excess nutrients into your water. Not to mention the impact it can have on your wallet!

We could not agree more.

I stocked my 2 acre pond with bream,fat head minnows, cray fish .let it sit for a year ...then threw in the large mouth.3 years later we are averaging 5 lb bass

We recommend waiting 6-8 months to stock your bass fingerlings.

@@aquaticcontrol great .. I plan on waiting about 16 months... just wanted to make sure.. my structure will cost more than my lake doing everything right ..I brought in a contractor who's built many lakes for bass pro shop .. Johnny Morrison

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