Jeff F. I hope you don't mind me using your stocking schedule to show my wife that other people like to stock fish and that I'm really a normal person that just likes to stock fish once a week. I'm geeked out too! There is nothing in your pond that will jerk your chain as hard as a hsb. The new aquamax largemouth is great for the hsb. I've been hand feeding it to them for about two months. Nedoc there is no learning curve. They take it right away. The only drawbacks for me have been price and I don't have a feeder that can handle it.