It sounds like the Lake is balancing itself out. I would just continue to do what you are doing. Remove skinny bass when caught, remove all crappie and pike when caught. Add forage cover. I think you have to weigh out how close you are to your goals vs. possibly going sideways or even South by adding another species. I figured the HA would be alarmed with the pike, especially in a swimming/recreational lake. Ignorant or not, people have prejudices. That's human nature. Not a lot of warm and fuzzy thoughts thinking about little kids in thier inflatable ducks with toothy pike eyeing thier toes. HA people think liability, lawsuit. I'd get them out and crappie can sometimes adversely affect LMB by interupting food chain. I might consider adding a catfish. But I would not add or even consider adding forage until I had adequate forage cover and a lot of those top predators removed.
