Ben - your existing fishery combo will not negate trout in the fall. Just buy them at the 10"-12" sizes which are the ones commonly available for fall pond stocking and maybe the 8" size could work if you can keep most of the LMB at 10" to 13". Actually in your smaller pond, keeping the bass in the smaller size range is not that hard if you remove every bass caught. Supplemental stocking of YP and SMB would also need to be larger sizes of 6"-8" to minimize loss to LMB predation. The main disadvantage to having the LMB will be lack of forage fish for YP-SMB; although stocking pellet trained ones and feeding them will maximize their grow rates.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/17/15 01:28 PM.
