Gotcha. Well at the very least I am going to make a pond rule that bass are to be released and are for fun fishing only. We will pull all the crappie out we fish and eat them. Over the last few weeks we have caught a bunch at a friends pond and they were 6-7 inches, but boy there were good eatin! Also, my friend who built my pond has a real small pond(if u could even call it a pond) that he uses for minnow production only. He has a few pallets in it, feeds them store bought forage, and lets them reproduce. Then a couple a times a year he drains half of it and dumps a ton of these minnows in his pond. He says it is helping his fish grow well, what do you guys think of this to my scenario? He has a backhoe, be an easy pond to set up...