Hi Bill,

Thank you for your reply. I really do appreciate it. This is my first dive into a pond and stocking / managing and everything is new.

If you saw these bass lining up every day would you be concerned there is not enough forage fish for them and so they are waiting for anything that comes in to dine on?

I stocked bluegill 3 years back, and they have successfully bred for 2 years before I introduced the bass this year. While we have noticed less bluegills hanging around the dock, they do come when we feed after a few minutes. Before the bass they were always everywhere, and now the large(r) bluegills are not so easy to spot and the smaller ones keep to the grass/weeds near the shore. I presume this is a result of learning that there are now predators present.