I am in no way advising anyone how to stock their pond. But over my life time, mainly bass fishing lakes and a few small ponds (I have one 1/2 acre) never have I seen a pond with so many big fat bass at being only 2 1/2 to 3 acre pond. Owner had it built 20 yrs ago. My son bought a house about 1/8th mile from pond and the pond owner and him have become good friends and he told my son he can fish it anytime and bring your Dad if you want(Great Guy). He said it was 12ft deep at dam when built, but gets farm field run-off so maybe 10ft deep now at Dam and 2-3 ft at opposite end. It was built right so you can fish all the way around it easy (no trees) no need for boat just a very nice walk around pond after work for 1hour of fishing. The owner said they stock it with bass, bluegill,crappie channels, even put in blue cats. My son walks it about every evening with a spinner bait and a jig with swim bait trailer jig and carries a scale for pictures before releasing. Almost every night he catches bass weight from 3lbs up in almost 6lb range (lots in the 5lb range) fat as can be. Owner ask him to throw any bluegill and crappie up on bank because they are stunted. He said way to many small crappie. My son even catches the channels on spinner baits. Owner even put a tree in it when it was built for crappie. He does no restocking of this pond since he does not live by it. just dyes it this time of year. He allows the kids around to swim in it from the dock (just a nice guy)no partying allowed for safety. Sorry for long story but just hard to find a pond that produces this size bass that always seem to want to hit a lure. He loses a lot of big ones that he sees jump and spit lure out. My thoughts on this pond is the crappie spawn first and create the forage for the bass at stunted size. Pond is amazing for 20 years old and little management on fish. I'll keep updates on catch rates as the spawn gets over and it gets warmer. Son has lived there almost a year now and top water is great in summer. Just thinking about what beastman said in another post about ending up with 100s even 1000s of stunted crappie (maybe good forage) something is being done right for bass fishing. Sorry again about this long post but this pond is a bass fisherman paridise.