John, big bummer on your SMB/RES pond. I was hoping that was going to be a great fishery for the grandkids in a few years!
Do you still have FHM in your forage pond? If so, then I would definitely dump as many as I could catch into the SMB/RES pond. That way, if you did have a 100% fish kill, then the few SMB that you can catch and move over would find themselves in paradise.
Is it easy for you to catch some gams in the pools of your creek? If so, then adding some gams to the SMB/RES pond could also jump start your forage base.
(If adding creek gams, I would only add the large ones. They are quite easy to identify by sight and make sure no GSF get added from the creek! Personally, I suck at identifying tiny fish.)
