I put in my forage fish as soon as I had a viable pool. Gave them the last year to create more. My thought on CC is that you can add them any time and they are not the base of the food chain but more on the top. So I'm going CC last if at all. I want the rest of the food chain sorted out (BG/LMB for me) and then I can determine if more apex chompers are wanted/needed.