I would skip the largemouth and bluegills, even the hybrids for now. Just stock the minnows, Smallmouth, YP/RES. If you will be feeding the fish, you can get some pretty good growth with supplemental feeding. Throw a Texas Hunter Feeder on there along with Optimal Fish food. You can have 13"+ Yellow Perch, RES that are 10"+. If you don't want love to catch/keep/eat Channel Cats I'd skip them too. Make sure you have a phenominal minnow population before stocking the WE.

Hybrid BG can nip too, although not as bad as straight BG. Depending on your goals (bigger bass or bigger panfish) the minnow population becomes very important. I think you will need both Fatheads and Golden Shiners to help support the SMB. IF you can get feed trained SMB, get them.

We will have a limited supply of feed trained SMB this Fall, talk to Steve Heitman @ Shelby Fish Farm to see if he will have any this Fall.

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