What are your goals for the fishery? Focus on bigger bass, bigger BG or a balance?

Any time you have less mouths to feed, the remaining mouths will do better. Keep in mind, the recommended 100 bass per acre is based on a fertile pond, stocking 2" or so fingerlings and the expectation that the LMB will be table fair along with the BG in a few years. I think 1/3-1/2 that recommendation is more reasonable in a northern pond where even balance or leaning towards larger LMB is the goal, especially when stocking advanced sized fingerlings. 6" LMB will have a much greater percentage that will survive than will 2" LMB, even when stocked into a pond that has no predators already in it.