I have a "mud" pond behind my house that i want to stock. It is about 1/4 an acre. It gets to about 75 in the summer. Would walleye and smallmouth bass work? If not what could i put there
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How deep is it and is there much structure, vegetation? Also how turbid is it? Both species would probably do fine but neither would breed, smallmouth especially need a gravel substrate to breed on and won't spawn over mud and silt like largemouth will.
That should be deep enough. Although like I said, there probably won't be natural reproduction so you'll have to stock the smallmouth and walleye. If you are looking for species that will reproduce in mud, largemouth bass, most Lepomis Sunfish (and probably both Crappie species), and bullhead catfish would work well as long as there is enough vegetation and plant growth.
Walleyes will be fine in that pond. But in my opinion saugeye will do best in mud ponds due to their silty tolerance.
Sauger probably would do well too then, I assume? OP, if I were you I'd definitely go for sauger if available, or saugeye like ^ stated. Both very beautiful species that seem to be about as hardy as carp in some places.
Sauger is intolerant of silty environments but I think it has to do with their spawning requirements.... But I've found that saugeyes are hardy than walleyes and saugers.
Weird, in the Allegheny River walleye tend to hang by dams and faster current where the sauger seem to stick to the turbid slack water.