Snapperhead,
A belated welcome to the forum from a couple hours north of you, I haven't been on the computer for a week.
Wow, this is a great thread, recapitulating a lot of info on bass growth and crappie control.
My only two cents [or less] worth-
I have a bass heavy, stunted pond similar to yours, which is finally coming around to a better balance. I've tried a bunch of things to bring this about, but the two things that really seem to work are very heavy harvest pressure on overrepresented classes of bass [which you're doing nicely] and the addition of tilapia. I got a lot of different recommendations on how many tilapia to add-I finally went with the one from Dr. Jeff Slipke, and put in 50 lbs per acre. That really seemed to do the trick-no weeds, and bass fattening up like crazy.
They will eat a lot of your BG feed, but they more than make up for that with reproduction, and taking some of the predatory pressure off the BG.
You can get them in our area for <$10.00/lb.
