YP can always be added later. You will know the need for YP if the SMB stay small and always keep eating up all the forage fish requiring you to continually add more to keep some forage fish present.
I help a few pond owners with several 0.2-0.5 acre ponds near me that have only SMB and no other fish species and the bass do just fine. They just don't normally get very big (12"-13"). No major over population problems seems to occur. But, if one fed them a high protein pellet like Silver Cup or Aquamax Carnivore the SMB only pond would do great and one could produce SM bass up to 4-6 lbs.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 04/12/09 08:48 PM.
