If you go back and read the entire thread, a couple posts before he mentioned the stocking combination you allude to, he listed his species of interest in order of preference, and NP was first. I would not have even mentioned them for a new pond otherwise; it would seem a pretty reasonable suggestion to someone who said they're the species he's most interested in having in his pond.
I would think that the advice of someone who has actual firsthand experience with the stocking of pike in a pond, and a smaller one at that, would be at least as valuable as that of people who have no experience whatsoever stocking them and only have knowledge of them from what they've read. But that's just me. I don't advise pond owners who ask about stocking trout in their ponds because I've never done it.
