A fellow northern Ohioan here, with lots of experience with yellow perch. Cecil calls me Dr Perca (perch). You can definately do YP and do it in a big way in your 0.75 ac pond. Here is a plan. Stock FHM soon. There are other places reasonably close to you to get FHM and YP depending on your location. One way that has worked well for us is FHM now and some YP that are both 2"-4" and next size larger (4"-6" or some 6"-8"). If you add YP now,, add a few more FHM 12-15lbs instead of 10 lbs. 30 lb is only needed if you are feeding LMB right away and is not the best way to do it IMO. Have spawning structure available for the FHM when they go in!. Broken concrete, tile, broken cement block, cedar shakes or boards tethered to shore, etc. see spawning habitat for FHM on the forum here.
For this early YP stocking plan in your 3/4ac, plan on it to occur once or twice, some now (125-200)and some later (100-200 any size) added with the other predators this fall or next spring. This gives you several year classes early; important to provide a strong YP fishery. The smaller YP (2"-6") will not eat that many baby FHM and will do real well on the new summer insect community developing in the pond. Stocking 4"-6" YP now will result in 6"-8.5" YP this fall for a few harvestable (20-30) if wanted. Then YP&FHM will spawn next spring and provide small YP for predators.
If you want RES, do it now with either 2"-4" or the 4"-6" as suggested by Jones (their 150 are ok or make it 200). RES population will always lag behind the others and getting them established first is a good idea. If stocked now they could also have limitred spawn next spring providing extra small forage later (late June) when new youngster YP are 1.5"-2". FHM will still be very plentifull then too.
Consider SMB (80-100/acre) instead of LMB. They will work in your pond.
See these 5 articles:
http://www.bassresource.com/fish_biology/growing-smallmouth.htmlIf you don't like SMB AFTER 4-5yrs and HBG or YP are too abundant then just stock several LMB in the early spring before spawning season (May in Ohio) a few LMB (5-10) at 8"-13" from your other pond and in 4-6 yrs the LMB will dominate your new pond. It never fails. LMB also prefer to eat YP instead of BG, which is why you don't see many YP in your old pond. LMB are not the best thing in a YP pond. Other predators work better with YP if weeds are minimal. With the SMB you can add a few HSB (16-30) when you stock the SMB. HSB will be your bonus fish. YOU can also add some HBG or BG in this fall with the bass (LMB(?), SMB &/or HSB). HBG & RES do not spawn very much compared to BG so they usually do not become overabundant in a SMB -YP pond. NOTE that Smallies are not a very good predator on BG so if you want BG either use just males or use LMB as the predator.
Another option for BG in this new pond is to just put in some male BG every year from the old pond. Just males will get large and won't spawn. Cecil (CB1), B.Condello and I have written in PBoss magazine about this option (see back issues). I suggest the HBG or BG not until fall. If it were my pond I would not add BG until you see a real need after the pond is 3-5yrs old and the pond is more established with the first stockings. OR it is important to stock BG if you use LMB. When ever you add BG they will eventually become a very common panfish in this pond and tend to crowd out the RES & YP; esp true if LMB are in the pond.
Hopefully by fall the water will have cleared quite a bit during dry spells and some grassed watershed is established allowing clay and sediment to settle.. Then you can see what is happening and decide on the other predators. PM me for a phone number or more detailed info about pond mgmt and fish sources for northern OH.
PS I consider GSH as bait stealers esp when fishing live bait for YP, BG, RES. GSH can be a nuisance at times but they are also a good foragae species - it all depends.
Pond Boss Magazine Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Jul- Aug: 2006. BEHEMOTH BLUEGILLS IN SMALL PONDS. In Parts I,II,III. Cody, Condello and Baird provide the necessary details of how to accurately sex bluegills to produce trophies in small waters.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=92477#Post92477POSTSCRIPT: It is illegal in OH to sell bullfrogs and their tadpoles due to DNR considers them a harvestable wildlife and not for aquaculture. Bfrog tadpoles are not on the Ohio Aquaculure class A nor B species lists for aquaculture species to raise and sell. Evidently Jones is not aware of this new law or they have found a loophole in the law?