beezaboy,
Go to you local industrial park and start scavanging busted pallets. You can arrange them in the shape of an "A" using some thin scrap lumber and deck screws.
Sink them in the 10ft area by either fastening some sandbags or cinder blocks to the crosspiece with wire.
These will provide an inexpensive shade for your predator fish as well as structure for your fingerlings to hide which they'll need during periods of low water (drought).
Introduce about 15-20 pickerel or Northern Pike to start harvesting these underfed bass. The size of your pond will support them. The muddy bottom likely means they won't reproduce, but they should resolve your abundance of underfed bass.
If you wish, add bluegill and fathead minnow fingerlings about 6 months after you've added the pickerel and created more structure for them to hide. You should see the bass population drop and the bluegill population grow.
If you can afford to, get a load or two of pea gravel and create some spawning areas in the 3ft shallows for your fish to reproduce. Perhaps drop some pallets down first to keep the mud
from enveloping the gravel.
If your pickerel eventually diminish, it will be after they've already culled your abundance of bass and given your bluegill and fatheads an opportunity to get established.
Another way of creating structure is with EMT conduit, boxes and strips of landscaping fabric. These will cost you less than $35 to make and are 10ft long.
