Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - What to stock to help bass growth

This is a great forun, I have been reading for a while but now have some questions about my pond

I am one of 3 people who own property on a 7 acre pond, the pond is max of 10 feet in NY. The pond had an OK bass population but 3 years ago flood wiped out the dam and much of the fish population was lost, we rebuilt the dam and restocked based on the state fish and wildlife recoomendation (based on reading here and else where it might not been the best advice) we stock 1000 4-6 inch fish, we were told no need to restock prey fish as they would survied the lose of the dam as a foot or so of water did remain in the pond.

Things looked good after year one and by year 2 the fish were about 6 to 10 inch, the problem is at year 3 this spring and summer the fish were still only 6 to 10 inches or at least what is being caught.

we have caught no sunfish, the pond never had a great sunfish population but I also do not see much bait fish either, I am looking for some help on what to stock in a pond with at least several hundred 6 to 8 inch bass and I would estimate a 100 10 inch bass

Probably the most important concept to keep in mind when adding additional forage to support/improve LMB growth and size is harvest of LMB. There are two parts to the equation - more forage and fewer predators.

For example it is not unheard of for the adding of more forage to result in more skinny LMB (absent harvest) not better conditioned LMB. Same for starting a feeding program - more skinny LMB over time rather than less.

It is not easy to guess correctly at how much more forage and what sizes are needed or to find those fish. I would rather be in the over forage - under predator situation and work toward balance than try it from the other direction (low forage - high predator).