Greg,
I'm confused with your post, in your previous post your disagreed with me saying that fertilizing will correct the problem of having fewer bluegill with shad.

In todays post you say bluegill growth will be reduced by shad. Which is it?

I disagree with your advice for an amateur pond manager to fertilize and feed the pond at the same time. If they had enough experince to manage a pond in this manner they would not be asking questions on this board. your post leads the average reader to believe that feeding and fertilizing is no big deal. From what I have experienced you need a good grasp of pond management and a watchful eye to implement ferrtilizing and feeding. Things will go very well this time of year but can change for the worse during summer months, as I'm sure you have experienced.

I would not recommend fertilizing and feeding to anyone unless I am checking their pond at least monthly. Even then I dont pass if off like its no big deal.