Thanks for your comments and I look forward to more thoughts the next day or two.

I will take everyone's good advice and shift away from the Hybrid Bluegill to only coppernose and redear in all ponds.

JayMan....I am not sure why I am not catching many smaller bass and we are not seeing many crappie being caught. I don't actually log the weights and lengths of the fish I catch but I can tell you they are perfect and healthy. I have not seen any that appear to be stunted or where there length seems anything but normal.

I just think the forage base is gone from the existing bass and they have likely been eating out the new hatch and smaller fish. Suprised though to not catch simply MORE bass.
A crane or two may be having some impact as well.

People keep saying florida's are hard to catch.
We seem to catch them just not the overall outing I am looking for. I want a trohpy bass fishing pond where it is not that uncommon to catch 8-15 bass from 2 to 8 lbs. on a regular basis when fishing is decent. I want larger bass than 8lbs. but lets get to there first.
Should I be stocking natives or some other type with Florida's??????

In response to the comment from Alligator...
I am trying to address these issues of turbidity and silt. Currently beavers have done a nice job of damning up (slowing down the water in some of the creek channels that feed this pond).
I am letting them do their thing. Also, we have built some ponds above which will help. I think if I can pull out some of the catfish and also get the depth improved by raising the spillway three feet this will all help.

Still...in the meantime...I want to improve the fishing....NOW!

Meadowlark.....

I am not sure how much I see the current pond as a existing healthy bass pond. Catching a few nice bass but not the numbers I would associate with HEALTHY.

My fish supplier only has CNBG in the 4-5" range and the Redear 3-4". I am committed to financially do what is needed but want to be effective. Paying this money to feed the fish is not my goal but I want to restore the forage base.

I will work on getting rid of the catfish....and crappie.

My fish supplier also only has bass in the 3-4" range right now, is that a waste of time. Should I just work on the forage now and add bass next spring? What size would work. I know there is no way to not have some of the fish added end up as just fish food but I need to get it going.

What did you think of the stocking numbers, mix for the new ponds if I change the HBG to CNBG and Redear????

Thanks to all for the thoughts...........