I've been thinking about this a lot and I think I might be understanding the big picture here a little better now.
I still need to go out and do some serious fishing and record all the lengths and weights and take pictures. Hopefully I can get to that this weekend.
Regardless of how we end up treating the weeds, would it hurt to stock some more LMB and CC this year? I'd like to pick up 250 LMB and another 300 CC. From the way the numbers of small bluegill look, all the new fish should all have plenty of food, right?
Just judging from many hours of unsuccessful catfishing and feeding the fish for the last 2 months, I don't think there are many catfish except the 200 4-6" ones (CC) we stocked this year, a couple large albinos and maybe a half a dozen large blue cats (and the bullheads).
I think the bass are plentiful but there are just a ton of small bluegill. I'm thinking 250 in 5 acres shouldn't hurt since we can always remove some if we find there are too many.
These are honestly all just guesses and observations. Any help or advice would be appreciated!
