As far as the LMB go, if you can find them and that is a big if... Pellet trained, single sex LMB, preferably female would be truly ideal IMO. The biggest concern with LMB is they spawn and have lots of babies. The original stockers are pellet trained, but the offspring sometimes learn to eat pellets, but many times don't... So after a generation or two, the benefit of pellet trained bass is slowly lost. This can be partially remedied by fishing. You can usually tell which bass are eating pellets and which ones aren't. The fat ones are pellet eaters, the skinny ones haven't figured it out. Let the fat ones go, keep the skinnier ones. Every year or every other year, stock a few more pellet trained bass.
As far as stocking numbers, well we are all here to help. We'll give you the best advice we can. So once you decide which fish you want in your pond, we'll give you good numbers to shoot for. Bill Cody probably knows more about OH ponds than anyone, so advice given by him is hard to beat!
