Your questions are never stupid. Pond management is a learning curve and we are here to help you learn. Ask all questions you want. Someone here will provide good answers. One of my tasks is to make sure the answers are reasonable, fair, and knowlegable, etc.. If you want fish structure, read through the lengthy thread in the Common Q&A Archives. It has lots of homemade structure ideas.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=92463#Post92463The fish farm discussed used to grow and sell smallmouth but finally discovered they are not easy to consistently produce on a commercial basis. They often had to go to other hatcheries for their smallmouth. Almost all fish farms buy some of their stocker fish esp catfish, HSB, grass carp, HBG, often RES and some other species. Hicklings Fish Farm in NY does sell high quality smallmouth.
Good book? Check the archive threads for previous common pond questions. I may put your/this thread in the archives as a topic for new pond info. The discussion of fish stocking kits is esp informative for new pond people.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=22&page=1Read about hybrid bluegill(HBG) in the archive thread.
