the pond has not been stocked at all since I have owned it and renovated it 15 yrs ago. whatever fish are there were just put there by mother nature or were there before I renovated it. (like I said it was never completely dry)
I would love to have better fish in the pond. if I had to chose i'd rather have bigger largemouth bass as I have another 1.5 acre lake I just had renovated and plan to stock with channel cat.
I have been told the bass are over populated so I am trying to get as many as I can out buy fishing and having anyone else that fish to keep their catch but I've been doing this for 2 yrs and haven't seen a big change. (probably 75 fish a yr get taken out for the last two yrs)
as far as the 2 big cats that were caught I guess I just need to go fishing again and if I see different sizes and age group then that answers my original question.