Okie :

Good advice so far on the smaller new ponds. You have a good opportunity to start them off right and while the forage base grows think about what you want from these ponds both as to goals and fish types in addition to fatheads and BG.

Leave out the HBG and replace with regular BG . CNBG are good and I would use some of both. CNBG are a florida sub species of BG and they don't do as well as the water gets colder moving north. As cent. okla. gets colder than Tex. and southern states I would hedge my bets and use some of both BG but not HBG.

On the large existing pond I question if you have the data needed to make a decision. It is very strange to have a good pop. of healthy 2-4+ lb bass but no 6-12in. or yoy bass and very few BG. Generally you should have good bass recruitment {new yoy bass hatch} with a healthy bass crop as described unless you have a huge 3-6 in. BG crop eating them. If lots of 3-6 in. BG you should have many healthy 8-12 in, bass and you should be seeing and catching lots of BG this size. What you are describing is a lack of bass recrutiment for several years which is very unusal .This leads me to think that with very low visibility you don't have a good data set on the fish status in the pond. This can occur for several reasons including low vis. along with fishing for bass with large baits. In that situation you do not see the BG and don't catch them on large baits. Without good data you would be shooting in the dark with more stocking. I would wait on adding fish to this pond until I got better info from seining or more catch data or fish traps or visual inspection or electroshock survey. I would go out with worms and crickets to target 4-10 in BG and see the results.

Any time I see someone making a large order of fish of many sizes I ask if they are real sure about the source of the fish and the sellers reputation. Even though most hatcheries and sellers are ok there are some very bad apples out there who prey on the public. If you have more info on the existing ponds fish please post. It would be good for you to know what type of bass {Fla., northerns or F1 crosses} are in the pond before adding more. ewest