i needed to bring this thread back to attention again. i live in central indiana and i am a couple weeks away from "hopefully" purchasing my acreage that has a new 4 acre pond that has not yet been filled. my question: if i stock this with gills, cats, and fatheads, then wait till fall and stock largemouth, what chances would i be taking to split the largemouth population with smallmouth? will i have a fair chance of keeping "some" smallmouth, or will the chances of them all dying be too great to even waste my time? just curious what you guys think, you all have more pond experience than me, i just love to catch em.