Billy, an often tossed around factoid is that bass need forage that is between 1/4 and 1/3 its body length. It's a matter of calories received vs energy expended to catch that small morsel.

Yeah, you could dump in a lot of large BG for the bass. However, at some point, you then have to worry about the biomass that somehow is supposed to top out at 100 pounds per acre of all fish in the pond. Go over that and you just might be looking at a dissolved oxygen crash. Those aren't pretty and my "experiments" have resulted in several of them. The bigger fish always seem to die first when you push that button.

Let me backtrack for a minute on the BG. Some of us are finding that the 1,000 baby BG per acre number is woefully short when bass use them for breakfast. If it were me, and it's not, I would either double that or wait longer to introduce predators.

If I just couldn't wait, I would go with feed trained bass, a Sweeney feeder and largemouth pellets the size of your thumb.

After all of that dancing around, I think it is doable. I would double the amount of BG, add feed trained bass with largemouth feeders and several BG feeders plus copious aeration. Don't forget redears for the snails and maybe tilapia. The kicker on the tilapia is that they don't cooperate and die off in the valley when the temps drop. With aeration, that probably won't be a big deal. Monitor everything carefully and tell the owner to keep his checkbook handy. Sounds like he is money whipping this deal anyway.

It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.

Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.

Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP Grandpa