Thanks very much, we also have a trickle of water running into the pond from a small creek after a very dry month.

There's a few smallmouth bass (self sustaining) in the pond up to about 12 inches and there's a moderate amount of submerged weeds.. I recently raked about 60% of it. There's no algae bloom and water is pretty clear, maybe a little brown.

I had a problem when I stocked the first batch of trout back in June that all died after introducing air and running it 24/7 right away during a hot month, so I'm a bit nervous how this one will go but the temps are much cooler this time.

Appreciate the advice, I will leave the aerator running on it's 10hr schedule from 11pm-9am for now and see how it goes