Okie,
Another couple of thoughts...
Stocking small BG in an existing healthy bass pond is providing mostly a treat, as opposed to an improvement to your forage base. You would be better served to buy larger BG ( 6,7 or even 8 inches) that have a reasonable chance of surviving LMB predation.
Also, you should expect very heavy predation on the fingerling bass, especially in view of your comments on the scarcity of BG.
You need to get rid of the cats, every last one of them. They simply detract from your goal of "trophy" bass. The crappie are problemmatic but it sounds as if you have them under control. However, as BG become more abundant watch out for crappie taking over. You will forever be required I believe to put heavy fishing pressure on the crappie, in order to achieve your objectives.
