Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Help on Bass Heavy Pond

I am having trouble keeping down my LMB population in a 12 acre pond. It has blue gills, coppernose, crappie, and LMB stocked in it. The bass are all very small & overpopulated, 7-12 inches.
We had LA wildlife and fisheries come out last year and shock it. They concluded that we had too many bass and not enough bream. The bream we have are really large, but their offspring are getting devoured by the bass. The crappie, which we were advised not to stock due to risk of overpopulation, are barely hanging in there. Every time I think the crappie are wiped out completely (couple years of not catching any), I will snag one or two.
We live on the pond and fish it pretty hard. Last year we caught around 300-400 LMB's, but we just can't keep up with them and get them under control.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to really pull out large quantities of LMB's. I have had some success at night using a hoop net with a submersible light tied in it and of course the old fashion rod n reel way, but I still can't catch enough of these little LMB's out. Does anyone know of any hoop net baits that will attract LMB's?
Not sure if it is even legal to own w/out a permit, but I even looked into buying electrofishing equipment after witnessing how easy the wildlife and fisheries brought up bass. I have searched the internet w/no luck and I am almost to the last resort of complete kill off and starting over, but I would really hate to have to do that. If anyone has any suggestions or information, I would really appreciate it.