Do you think that YP or BG would be better as food? I could add BG, YP, and GSH and see which does best?
Diversity of forage species is usually the best plan. BG are the most prolific of the three noted.
As noted, BCs are effective, hungry predators, and they'll get big in a pond with decent forage....really big. I'm not sure BG by themselves will be able to provide enough substance for a breeding population of BC without a lot of culling. I have no idea of how to assess relative weights of BCs, but mine were not great [big mouths, thinner bodies] until I was aggressive with additional forage for them.
I have had plenty of recruitment without any special accommodations for the BCs, and would be afraid of encouraging them too much--a large population of BCs of a few pounds each could put a big hurt on the up and coming BG population, robbing the behemoths of adequate forage. And the little guys are aggressively piscivorous-I catch them on crankbaits regularly.
