Hi Chris and welcome to the forum. I am up in Rochester area up near lake ontairo (about 300 yrds away ) I setup my pond to be a SMB and Perch pond. I did as you did by putting the FH in the fall. I waited until the summer after that ( like you ) to put in the YP. I put in 2-3 inch fry at that time. There is a great place to get them near you ( If you like I can provide that to you ) I left them in and waited until the next spring to put in the SMB. I put those in when the supplier had them at around 3 -5 inches. By the way do you have an areation system in the pond?
I know it is hard to wait and see time passing, but I can tell you it pays off big time to let the food chain establish and let each one gain hold prior to moving on to the next link in the food chain. Thus far I have not had any fish kill and I have the bass jumping nightly and the perch reproducing and the FH minnows are still around in enough numbers to feed the others without me adding anything to the pond.
If you have any questions please feel free to give me a shout and we can talk upstate YP and SMB ponds.
Good luck and enjoy the fun of building the eco system.
