Cuda, we all understand the desire to speed things up, but if you really want some trophy fish, you'll want your pond packed with ALL age groups of forage fish meaning that you will have wanted them to have spawned multiple times BEFORE adding the first predator fish.
If you could wait a year after stocking forage, AND you were feeding fish feed, you would have adult Bluegill in the 6-8"+ size plus multiple size classes below that. The adult bluegill would generally grow to where they would be beyond predation by the LMB, and thus would continue to spawn while the other size classes would be eaten following the growth of the LMB.
With more money, you could certainly stock more fish, but I wonder if you could really make up for a years worth of spawning without predation.
No matter which you chose, it will be fun and interesting.
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