btbubba - BE carefull not to add too many different kinds of reproducing predators (fish that eat fish) in a pond that only has bluegill /redear sunfish as a forage fish. From reading other posts here I hope you realize that your fathead minnows will only last a short while after you stock the bass. The minnows are around just long enough to get your bass a "jump start" on growth the first year. It is very doubtful if bluegill/redears alone can produce enough forage to feed bass, crappie and some hybrid striped bass and expect all those predators to grow well or grow at normal rates unless you keep the numbers of predators heavily thinned out or culled.
