.......Since you are in NF why do you not consider/use tilapia (vegetarian) to supplement your pond's food web? The occasional winter cold snaps could cause sluggish small tilapia which are easy food for the bass. Tilapia are also good guests to dinner.
All Tilapia (Conditional Species) in Florida were banned from possession or transport in Northern Florida, but that may have recently changed...Blue Tilapia were the only legal tilapia anyone could possess in southern Florida...
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/conditional-prohibited-species/conditional/
