stocking a pond

Kool pic of your little guy havin fun! I have a 1/2 acre pond here in SE Michigan, been working on managing it for about 10 years now. The bass will clear up the small blue gill situation, but medium and larger blue gill will eat the bass eggs, so ya kinda have to watch them a little bit too. The channel cats can get real aggressive as the get larger and can cause problems for you bass. If you haven't received the cats yet think about sterile ones cause if you make a mistake you don't have to try to shock them and fish them out to control the population. How deep is the pond?