I've spent quite a bit of time reading all of the past posts on this topic, but I would really appeciate the comments from the forum before I act. We recently built a half acre pond behind our house in Wichita Kansas. It is 14' deep at the deepest part and has another shelf that is 8' deep. The pond will have a waterfall that will be running almost all of the time. The pond is fed from rainfall drainage and from a natural spring. It was completed in February and filled even though we had only about 1.5" of precipitation that month. My goal is to have a pond that is relatively self-sustaining without pellet feeding although I don't mind re-stocking forage fish periodically. My second goal is to be able to fish for and catch a wide variety of sizes of BG and either LMB or HSB. Based on the past coverage of this topic I'm planning to stock the following fish as soon as possible:
5 Lbs of FHM
250 Blue Gill
50 RES

Late in the Summer I will add either LMB of HSB.

I would be very greatful for your thoughts on this much-discussed topic.