Guess I won't be putting any bass in my 1/4 acre pond. They would wipe out the BG and RES, then reproduce and stunt. I will let my CC be top predators.
You could always put one single LMB in. As long as someone did not bucket stock another, should be no reproduction and it at least would help the CC control some of the recruitment.
If you caught it sometime and it was outside optimal size range, replace it with a smaller one.
