Since they hammered your forage base already, I don't think angling will remove enough of them to let your forage base rebound quickly. If a lot aren't removed, even stocking more forage will just be stocking food for the bass, and a lot of your newly stocked fish won't survive to spawn.
I don't really want any down time here if I can help it and I don't mind spending some money, though there is a point where I would be better off just killing everything off and starting over. With this is mind is there any way to catch up with my forage without taking the vast majority of the bass out? Can I stock enough smaller bream or a combination of smaller bream and ______ to catch up?
I do think that I have a good population of 6" plus CNMB, just no smaller ones.
