TJ,
great snapshot. your on a great path! Glad to see you stocking advanced size smallies every year, that is truly a big key to growing trophy fish of pretty much any species...even though the yellow perch are reproducing, just view those little guys as forage, the ones born in your pond wont ever amount to anything, I would stock advanced size perch annually as well....
So from my point of view, seeing how you love both ice fishing and perch so much I definitely would wage war on the bluegill and redears in the 4-7" range....since you dont have largemouth bass those are completely worthless fish for you, you have your work cut out for you.
get creative and get em out every chance possible....I would fasten some structure to the underside of your floating dock so as to not get in the way of swimmers, but to help congregate the little bastards where they are easily accessible to you and your kids and your kids friends with ice fishing jigs (during the summer time) and would make contests on catching and removing the most of them....you would be surprised at how big of a dent you can put in them when you target them specifically...I have moved 1000's and 1000's of unwanted fish from my 3 acre pond doing that...(a 3 acre pond which I unfortunately no longer own, man I miss that pond...)
So anyhow I know you dont like much structure, but I would make one very cool reef out in the middle in the 16' water for just a rock solid place to ice fish and also give your fish a nice home feel or better yet give em disneyland out in the desert or six flags to visit (not county fair feel though)...People like a little scenery and so do fish....happy fish are much happier than bored fish.... hey if debris like structure is not your thing, than you should consider adding current to your pond...moving water horizontally or vertically makes fish happier than anything...current is the most underutilized fish making happy tool on the planet...get creative, but watch your pond come alive when you figure out how to make a river in your pond or simply how to move some water in there....
So there is my advice for you, you are already way beyond cutting edge with what your doing with that pond, my hat is off to you and like many others, I look forward to catching a fish off your dock this summer! Although when I come, im gonna train your smallies to eat out of my hand by the end of just one day....the 4-7" bluegill they will eat, but mainly only when they are injured...also smallies are super curious fish when your underwater they are not generally scared of you....by staying a few feet underwater I will get em to eat and then after a few days of that you can just lean over your dock and they are ready to gorge on your live offering.....
