In smaller ponds, managing a typical LMB/BG fish combination can be difficult. You are limited to about 50 pounds of total bass. Doesn't leave much room to grow very many decent bass. Or you just end up with many stunted small bass. In smaller ponds, you can often produce a good sunfish fishery by allowing your bass to stunt which in turn controlled most of the sunfish reproduction meaning the remaining sunfish grow fast and larger. Sunfish being BG and RES.
In ponds less than 1 acre, I prefer put and take fishery based on HBG/HSB/CC. With a feeding program and aeration you can really produce some high quality fish in good numbers. With this combo, there is no reason you couldn't add some trout and see if they'd make it through the summer. If not, you can still stock them in the fall and harvest them in the spring before the temps get too high...
Check out the forum, the HBG/HSB/CC combo has been mentioned many times before.
