Dwight,
I have never seen a bass/bluegill pond with natural pike reproduction. I am sure others have, but we just don't get much pike or walleye to reproduce at all in panfish infested ponds.
Also stocking yearling walleyes in our zone in November really hasn't seemed to lead to much mortality due to predation, and that is in predator heavy waters.
Bunches and bunches of yearling walleye to stock the entire midwest come out of Minnesota the last half of October to the first half of November.
If you could habituate them with a net and some fathead minnows I am sure that quick meal before entering the real world would help them out quite a bit, but we don't typically do that and have great success stocking them that time of year.
