Striped Bass?

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If your dead set on it then if I were you I'd make a bigger pond for it, say 20'X20'X5' would be good. But unless your willing to do this then you will have to choose a smaller predator.
 
It's ok, life is full of dissapointments. You have to take advantage of the good and look at the bright side, You now have a project to do and you get to spend it in the outdoors, this means that when you get the striper it will mean that much more to you when you remember all the work and effort you put forth to get it. trust me it sounds depressing right now but you will be happy with the end product :)
 
If you want a larger fish, why not try some gar?
 
troppond;4968521; said:
I really like specimen fish, it is 3.5 feet deep now and the ONLY fish id keep is the striper. I really like 4-5 ft long fish and a wiper just doesn't get big enough for me, itd be like a big lmb. I really want the striper. It would probably be a good home compared to how cramped SOME people keep things like rtcs. I'm not saying on this site. It would be pretty hard to grow a monster fish like 6 ft, I mean those grow in the entire ocean
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I am surprised that no fisherman has helped you out here. You are aware that Striped bass run all the way from landlocked freshwater reservoirs to full ocean marine salt level.

The extremely large (> 5 feet) will be FULL salt water, and I was not under the impression that you were going marine "lagoon"! There are also immense brackish strippers in the Chesapeake Bay, but again problem is tougher upkeep of a brackish lagoon than a freshwater pond. You will have additional difficulties/ challenges in keeping striped bass from the brackish bodies of water. There are two kinds of Stripped bass (Resident, and Migratory). You will have great difficulty successfully homing a migratory stripper in a freshwater enclosure of any size! Distinguishing between resident and migratory brackish strippers is beyond me, and an even more experienced fisherman would have to help out there.

I don't believe that you will achieve the desired 5 + feet from a landlocked freshwater caught stripped bass. Just food for thought (pardon the pun!)
 
Like Noto said, migratory stripers have been landlocked due to dams and reproduced, they can live in really anny type of water, and its either 5 hybrids or a striper
 
Then get a bigger pond, or just don't listen to us! ;) It seems as if you are dead set on it, but you need to realize the potential size of these fish, and bulk. A 60" striper is alot of fish for a garden pond.
 
haha im stubborn, and i prob should've mentioned this earlier... we have a half acre pond that is landlocked in case it gets too big, and if i was really attached to it I could prob set up some kind of like dog fencing in the pond to contain the striper :))
 
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