Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - A second fish to add to my trout pond

The past few years with its hot summers have made it difficult to maintain a trout pond. I am looking for a second fish to stock in my previously trout only pond. The pond will be fished by my two grandsons aged 3 and 6 years old. The pond is located on our country property that is about 1 1/2 hour from home so we will not be there that often. but when there I want to be sure that the grandchildren will catch fish regardless of temperature or weather conditions. I am willing to stock the pond annually to maintain a healthy population of fish but do not want to have to continuously cull the fish to maintain a healthy population of baitfish
Our pond is about one acre and 15' deep, last year we added a well to attempt to help our trout survive the summer heat. The well water goes through a venturi and water tower consisting of five 5-gallon buckets, it then is piped to the bottom of the pond. The pond shoreline consists of about 1/3 willow branches and roots and 2/3 grasses. About 15 years ago, I mistakenly stocked Black Crappie, within 1 year they had eliminated all of my fatheads and were putting a dent in my spawning crawfish, then after attempting to cull them for five years, gave up and drained the pond, to remove. I don't want to make the same mistake again. I have a feeder that is set to distribute food one time per day. Perch sound like a good alternative but I would like to get the Pond Boss members ideas before proceeding.

Goals - ""I want to be sure that the grandchildren will catch fish regardless of temperature or weather conditions.""
Let's get some more basic information.
Questions -
Are trout still living surviving all year in the pond?
Can someone catch them (trout) in July & August?
Does the pond still have fatheads living year round?
What brand and 40% protein content of fish food are you using?

IMO get rid of those willow trees. The roots will perforate the pond banks and transpire lots of water out of the pond. The willow will also add lots of unnecessary leaves and twigs into the pond to make it age faster and make more mucky black shoreline conditions. I have a local pond owner with this problem. He is tired of the problems and added work that the willow trash is causing. He deeply regrets allowing those willow trees to grow near and on the pond edges. .

Just an update on the status of my pond. Some of the remaining trout began feeding on floating fish food in September. Just a few at first, with the number increasing thru October. Seeing positive signs that at least some trout had survived, I stocked an additional 100, 4-6" fish Nov 2nd.
It appears that prior to the Nov 2 nd stocking, the trout that I could see feeding on the surface consisted of two age groups. One group presently about 16" stocked as 8–12-inch fish in the fall of 2023 and a second group of larger fish that I would guess to be 18"+ that were stocked in the fall of 2022 also as 8-12"-fish.

Poachers , 2 Legged , or 4 Legged ? How about the infamous Water Turkey, Eagles , Fish Hawks , or Osprey ? Possibly a little of all listed ? Last of all , IIRC , read somewhere that 30 per cent per year natural death was not unusual , If you have a couple of the above, + the 30 percent over a years time, oh don't forget the fish eating duck varieties , and you won't have much left. I've watched Water Turkeys every spring at my pond, its a battle for 2 weeks , constant poaching and I see beautiful fish of 12-14" hanging out of heir beaks , plus 2 days of Bald eagles every spring . Trolling for Trout on Colorado Lakes, the Osprey and Eagles feeding nests , are constantly fishing and quite successful . Just a thought . 2 Legged and four legged mammals , can haul out 30-40 Rainbows in a night or two Easily , especially dumb hatchery trout , just stocked. We stock 200 lbs of Rainbows each November , I ask our customers to wait 7-10 days before they start targeting trout , to let them acclimate. 1 acre isn't much to search through , to find a school of hatchery rainbows.