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Is there a normally-eaten fish that could be grown out from October to April in central North Carolina?

I can't say about water temperatures for certain but average air temperatures for those months are:

October -- Lows 50, Highs 70
November -- Lows 42, highs 63
December -- Lows 33, Highs 53
January -- Lows 30, Highs 50
February -- Lows 33, Highs 54
March -- Lows 38, Highs 62
April -- Lows 42, Highs 72

We put our tomatoes and peppers in at the end up April and expect to lose them to our first frost in late October or early November.

Am I in trout territory with these temperatures? And is it enough time to grow them out to table size?

What I'm reading seems to say that catfish would survive at these temperatures but not really grow, is that right?

We're getting the IBC within a week and then have to actually set it and the grow beds up (probably collards, endive, escarole, kale, swiss chard, and turnips for winter -- adding in snap peas come February). Then we'll have to get it cycled with the goldfish. So early October looks like the time we'd be starting the food fish.

Thanks so much for answering our many, many questions.

i would think you'd have enough time.. you definitely will if you start with "advanced" fingerlings