Great stuff guys. We have had issues with other lakes not having enough bait to keep the LMB from basically taking over and eating all the bait. I like the idea of waiting a year plus before we stock bass. This is one where we can't let it get off the rails before we even get started.
In my experience with stocking a few lakes we have, it seems if you don't add bait along the way it's tough to keep one up and running without the bass being stunted. So if the bass don't have enough bait to start with, playing catch up with 50 a acre lake would cost way more than we want to spend.