Everyone - I appreciate all of your advice!
It sounds like for a few hundred dollars I get moving on my pond a lot faster and potentially avoid some fish quality issues. I think our DNR does have a good hatchery going though, so for me its a time issue more than anything as I don't think I'm going to feed.
I've been thinking about this for a while and I guess out of all the typical fish you catch in IL pond, I love big bluegills. Well, big sunfish in general.
