theoretically if you eliminate one or two of your three predator species your catfish fry will have that much better chance of survival assuming you provide spawning caves for the cats. Also, proper structure in the form of old christmas trees and/or a large growth of bullrush or cattails will provide shelter for young, vulnerable fry and fingerlings from predatory species. The first species I would introduce after I aquascaped my plants would be fathead minnows or golden shiners at about 200 per acre a full year before the introduction of the bream and subsequent catfish. Personally I would largely forego the Bass and plant only 25 fingerlings per acre and instead plant a larger sunfish species along with bluegill. The thought being that the sunfish are more easily consumed by catfish than bass. Red eared Sunfish (which can eat snails and other shelled critters) I would add very sparingly with the catfish in order to control snails and things from getting too comfortable. A catfish that is a few years old will actively and successfully consume sunfish. I would entertain the idea of adding blue catfish to channel cats at a ratio around 1 to 10 to ensure that catfish are the main predatory species and for reasons of variety and controlling bream numbers. After a couple years in a new built pond I would harvest only 2-4 pound catfish, the occasional bream, and leave the larger fish to breed. I would provide copious spawning caves, structure/vegetation combined with depth variance to shelter fry and minnows and maybe even play with some type of hardware cloth to use as a creep and place them around the pond for sheltering minnows and fry as well. Special attention should be provided to the vegetation species and characteristics to maximize water quality, oxygenation and overall fishery health. I would probably fashion some type of RAM pump or wind/solar combination to move water from the shallow side of the pond to the deeper side and then down a water feature that aerates the water and continuously cycles/filters it through a series of charcoal and beneficial bacteria substrate. Ideally my pond would be fed by a seep or spring which would largely remove the need to pump water around.
Warmouth, rockbass, and green sunfish are completely different fish. A warmouth is a hybrid between a bluegill and a green sunfish and a rock bass is a completely different species.
I guess those 5-8 inch lmb are different colored than here. Here we would call them Kentucky or spotted bass. Our largemouth are a lot darker and less dotty unlike spots
-Crucian carp, tench, rudd fish, common roach, bream, common bleak, perch, european weather loach ... -For biger ponds and lakes: comon carp, grass carp, pike, zander, european catfish.... You shuld do research first, not every specie is native in every part of Europe.
Do you really think the carp is a bad fish, I mean that whole world likes them and fishes them only you americans think that carp is a bad fish and that it destroys the plants and the pound
@@brandonthompson7075 Flatheads eat live fish almost exclusively. They'll continue to grow and eat larger and larger fish and can wipe out a smaller body of water.
I thought the carp eats the moss and plants? I've finished several stocked farm ponds with huge bass and huge crappie. Im enjoy bass fishing the most ill just put bluegill, catfish and bass in pond. I've also heard bass love trout this true?