Echoing canyon's comments on the channel cats, if you really are not interested in channel cats, I would consider putting in 5-10 of them just for a splash of variety.

The number of 1500 bluegill into 1/2 acre or converted to 3000/acre is a fairly new concept designed to 'flood' a body of water with bluegill as forage fish, and then let them all spawn without any predation on them by predator fish (LMB, etc.). Thus when the bass are introduced, there is a ton of food for them to eat, and they have explosive growth.

You could lessen the bluegill stocking number and push off the LMB stocking until Spring '23, and get possibly a similar result.


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."