kurt, is there any reason you wouldn't want to go with smallies as the, or one of the, main predators?

If I had something fresh and new like your pond, I might go SMB/YP/RES/HSB/WE after having established some other forage fish like GSH; I might even time the YP in earlier than the SMB/WE/HSB.

Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."