As long as you are open and willing to deal with 'potential' problems down the road with gizzards and majority of your bass are over 16", go for it. Your original stock is already 9 years old so you're banking that subsequent cohorts will take the ball and run. If you have a shortage of bluegill recruitment as SE found, then you probably aren't taking enough bass annually (do you weigh everything?) and feeding as suggested will help your bluegill. If you're consistently pulling 25lbs/ac/year via hook and line, that's phenomenal! Bump your harvest up to 40lbs/ac/year. Look closely too at your habitat layout- create many ambush sites in varying depths. Make it easy to eat.

The combination of habitat (efficient feeding), ample prey of the right size, and genetics are your players. Will they respond? Maybe. No one can predict how your bass will respond. If they don't respond your options are to start over or try to influence the genetic variable by marking and stocking new bass at low rates after further harvesting your bass population as low as you can stand to.

Just my thoughts based on what we are experiencing.

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