I can back up Snipe and even take it a bit further. I stocked FHM (along with crawdads) one year before stocking HSB, HBG, and RES and the results where beyond amazing.

The HSB went from 4 to 6" at stocking to almost 12" long in 3-1/2 months with supplemental feeding of pellets. In 5 months I caught the current record of 1.4 pounds at about 13 inches. My feeding last year of the pellets never really produced the crazy feeding frenzy most speak of that pellet feed. I contribute this to the massive amounts of minnows that were available, the fish's bellies were merely full.

Here are two short threads of mine on the subject that give more detail...

http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=36605&Number=478228#Post478228

http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=38025&Number=494998#Post494998

I don't know for fact, but I bet that I would not have gained that kind of growth on supplemental feeding alone...it did cost me a year of not having game fish in the pond however. Well worth the wait! And, 35$ of minnows turned into several hundred dollars worth of natural feed.

Fish on!,
Noel