They will provide those things.
The advice given to me here on PBF (I had stocked the pond before finding PBF

)was to never release a CC after catching it (so they less likely to get hook shy) and try to get them all harvested by the time they reach about 3#.
Wife fillet'd 9 a couple days ago. Really nice fillets. Have a couple waiting in the holding pen right now waiting till we catch some more to clean all at once.
Good luck whatever you decide.