Awesome discussion everyone. Thanks for all feed back. My kids are 14 and 18 so time really isn't on my side. I know I should have killed everything off a couple years ago but even then I had no idea anything actually lived. I shocked the pond right after it and we shocked up 3 tinny BG. Amd I mean tinny. Honestly I think your right I should kill the pond off but that would set me back 2-3 years. 😥. So my oldest is already bored fishing because we don't catch anything but BH and my youngest is the same. If I can get 3-4 years out of this stocking before I get into population trouble im ok with that. What do you think.

Don't have a money bag either so making a secondary pond to hold large stocker fish I don't think is possable. I do have plenty of room for one just not the funds to make it happen. :-(

As far as forage I do have a crap load of BG in the pond. When the feeders go the water boils with feeding fish. I feed for 8 seconds at a time 3-4 time a day amd the feed is normally gone with in 30 seconds of the feeder stoping.

I had no idea that the CC are hard to catch once you caught them. :-(. That's disappointing. I figure I'll lose 20-30 percent just by the shock of stocking them. Does that sound normal. I always figured on getting 70 percent of what I stick just due to the shock of transportation and other factors.

Another question they said they will be stocking later this month. Is that a good time of the year to stock CC and bass. I am in east Texas.