Boon, I'm looking forward to hearing what the experts have to say on your TP question. I started off with no BG (Suspect the GSF and YBH ate them as none have been caught) Thinking TP may be a good forage addition and assist with the excessive vegetation I have. Hopefully the BG stocked in August take off this spring.
Right now it's good cover as I don't have the structure you have. I'm correcting that and hope to have at least 25% of the pond with structure before spring and hopefully get some good spring rains to eliminate my shallow water situation.
It makes fishing extremely difficult.
2 Acre, Completed July 2022, CC,BG, Sept. 2022, LMB June 2023, GSF, YBH invasion in 2022. BG, CNBG, RES, 2025, TP seasonal.