Have you added any structure? A 9 acre pond obviously requires a lot of forage and I would hate for you to pay all that money to stock it properly only to have the bass wipe out the forage since there is nowhere for the forage to hide. Make some big rock piles and/or rip rap shorelines. Get some PVC structure and concentrate it in several spots at different depths. Perhaps cut a shoreline tree or two and make it fall into the lake. Put a long pipe in the bottom and then stack Christmas trees on top of it to a few inches under the surface. Get some lilly pads or other vegetation growing in shallow flats. You want to have structure in 20% of the pond which doesn't sound like much but actually is a huge amount!
