sjburn - if you get into the 'rut' of stocking more forage to give your current bass more food, the bass will then just continue to reproduce, hog and over eat the current or existing forage, have slow growth, and then in a year or two you need to stock more forage. It becomes a perpetual cycle. it is basically natural population dynamics. It is best to work within the natural system balance.
The key and wise management method for your situation is a heavy annual harvest of the smaller bass - 8"-12" ers. Reduce the number of predators so the currrent forage base can maintain a numbers balance to feed the existing predator base. Currently your predator base is too large. There are previous posts here to provide some guidelines as to how many pounds of LMB to remove. But it bascially amounts to keep removing bass until you see improved growth in bass length and plumpness. Seeing this growth is best done by keeping catch records of the fish you are catching, those released, and those removed. Feeding the forage pellets will help boost and improve the forage base providing you don't have too many "hogs" eating the forage.
Have you read all the discussions in these threads about bass management? There is lots of valuable, reliable, and proven predator management info there.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=255372#Post255372 
