Just like Cody always said, it all depends. Need to define overstocking. Don't some of the other pros recommend 2000 bluegill per acre now? I wonder how this is working out.

Did Buff say what size bluegill he stocked?

I can see how how stocking too many bluegill up front could hurt you, especially if they are advanced size fish from the start. You may not want to concentrate so much on feeding the adult bluegill, instead concentrate on producing plankton. If your pond does not produce significant plankton for baby bluegill and fathead minnows to eat, then they themselves may starve, grow slow, and/or get eaten by parent bluegill. But with adequate plankton abundance, bluegill and fathead minnows fry survival should be significant. I recommend running a minnow seine to spot sample the pond before adding the bass. If the buffet isn't set for them then they may not grow like they should.

Personally, I stocked 30,000 small bluegill in my 3/4 acre bass brood stock pond last spring, but I had to feed em regularly, aerate. The brood stock bass did not complain about the bluegill being overstocked. The bass responded with RWs up to 133.

Since you appear to be planning for the introduction of small bass fingerlings, the ideal scenario is for your pond to have produced hundreds of thousands of 1" bluegill and fathead minnows at the time that the bass fingerlings are introduced.

And I agree with George. Stay away from hybrid fish. Stock the camelot bell or other pure florida bass from the start, and you may still have trophy potential in your bass even when you are a decade down the road...

It's ALL about the fish!