Most professionals will agree not to stock HBG in a bass pond or in combination with native or coppernose bluegill. They are competition for bass, don't produce significant offspring for baitfish, and will hybridize with bluegill to make inferior runts. They best way I see to stock HBG with LMB is to go with feedtrained LMB at least 50 adult or subadult fish per acre and adopt a supplemental feeding program with high protein fish food. If you implement this program with any of the ponds then you can also go with other feedtrained predators like catfish, HSBs, trout in winter, etc.
Another option is to stock with baitfish that have tremendous reproductive potential and predator fish that do not. This keeps things simple and promotes balance. Baitfish that fit this regime include bluegill, redear, fatheads, tilapia, shiners, shad. Predators include HSBs, catfish, trout. Implement put and take management for your predators in this case. This program allows for low maintenance plans to work well.
For baitfish stocking this time of year I'd recommend the basic mix of 800bluegill/200redear sunfish/10#fathead minnows per acre. Depending on your goals it might not benefit you to wait a full year to stock predators, might ought to wait months or not at all....just depends.
