Bob I know you're building a big rec pond too. Let me say this. There's no
need to go by stocking rates. I stocked 100 bass, 100 catfish, 100
bluegills, 1,000 rosey reds (the minimum I could get), and 48 shiners. A few
months later there's a billion fish. Had I gone by the stocking rates the
government puts out (and the fish hatchery) It would have cost about
$6,000.00. Instead I payed $660.00 and everyone's happy.

"Bob Adkins" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:08:45 -0400, "Sam Hopkins"
wrote:

Looks like the 1,000 rosey reds I stocked in my pond spawned and now I
have
about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,003 new ones all
along
the shoreline of my pond. It's crazy seeing drones of fish schools like
that.

So I should need only 3, right? Send them! :-)

Bob