Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat 6 acre HDPE lined bass lake starting over TN

I am not a pro, but you asked for opinions so FWIW IMHO if you successfully pull off the BG restocking you describe, I would consider stocking at least some good genetics fingerling LMB along with the large ones you are retaining. Your current plan provides no small size class LMB for control of the small BG, new BG spawn and shad spawn. Those big bass will ignore those little fish. You are betting on the 6 possible big LMB pairs finding each other in a pretty big puddle at spawning time. Might happen. Might not. I would hedge my bet with the additional stocking of a few LMB fingerlings. Just my 2 cents