Thanks everyone for all the great advise. What I have mostly taken away from this is that patience is the key. I have to remember that there's nothing in the pond more that 2 years old. You also helped remind me what my goals for the pond were. All I really wanted was to be able to harvest 1 or 2 hundred pounds of fish a year and not have to feed to do it. Given the growth that I have seen in the last year (both size and population) this goal certainly seems achievable. Yes it would be great if most of what I take out are 12 oz. bream but anything I do now short of stuffing them with pellets won't make that happen any faster.

So I guess for now the answer is wait until next spring and start the discussion again. I might however add a few more HSB sometime this year. I have never been an avid angler. I was more about eating them than catching them. But the other day out in the boat I threw out a little 1-1/2" plug just to see what happened. What I can only imagine was one of those larger wipers grabbed it. I wasn't able to land it but that was one hell of a ride for 10 or 12 seconds.

I also understand that HSB are right tasty!