I've been really hoping to see more people try the all female LMB option. With it you could add RES and I don't think they would reproduce enough to overrun the pond. In the end, many of the female LMB and RES of either sex would be using pellets. Another possibility that I've always wanted to see in a small pond would be incorporating all female black crappie. If you had a source for adults it's easy to pick out the egg-laden females in early spring. If you mixed those with both sex RES or fathead minnows you could possibly grow a three pound crappie. Feeding the fatheads over a "crappie hinding structure" could mean doom for the stupid pellet eating fatheads.
