Jpsdad, thx for the reply.

As for the thought of supplementing the pond with a shallow water well, in which the water is shared with the pond anyways… that did cross my mind. However I figured, if the pond had the banks/dam to hold additional water, moving it from water table to the pond would actually work. Maybe not. This is something I’ll try and find out.
Though I do completely understand that this low alkaline water supplementation will only make it difficult to sustain a properly balanced alkaline pond. But aren’t most ponds “spring fed”, where this same concept applies… but instead of water table water, the pond is fed by creek water which may also have an undesirable alkaline content?
If so are we saying the only way to sustain balanced chemicals in a pond is if it is a stagnated pond? Nobody wants a stagnated pond do they?

As for the lmb vs bg.

First of all I do not care for the warmouth. If they become eradicated with the lmb/bg efforts that is fine.

Before I started adding lmb structures I had a similar theory that these bg are simply hiding in all this hydrilla making it tough for the lmb to feed on them. So they may very well be the issue for the lmb more than anything.
And to better support this theory… when fishing with a live bream and a bg… it does not take long to get a lmb to bite!!
But since feeding the bg the numbers of them are really increasing. So with those increased numbers of bg you’d think the feeding success for the lmb would be increased. Maybe? I dunno.

I think with the points you made about the alkalinity (as long as I understand correctly), that I’d prefer to leave that effort of raising alkalinity alone if indeed it will sacrifice the water clarity and also be difficult to sustain based on the shallow water well topping of the water level. I justify this by considering a consistent topped off water level and oxygen (especially in summer) is more important than correct alkaline level. Is that thinking wrong? What’s more important? Water level (which may sustain better oxygen levels during summer) or low water level (less oxygen) and correct alkalinity?

I feel we are going to make some progress with this exchange but sometimes one answer just causes more questions.

Thx for your input.

Cc