Stocking 5 acre pond in South Alabama...

Dunn’s fish farm or Pond stockers can give you all the info. They will deliver if I remember correctly. They go all over the south.

I think Mississippi’s Pond Management manual is a good as any available as to answering most of the questions you have LINK

Of course Auburn University’s website on managing small ponds/lakes is also excellent. Virtually all the recommendations on managing small impoundments in the Southeast were developed by Dr Homer Swingle of Auburn in the 40s/50s and refined over the years. Here is a link to various topics including a list of fish suppliers in AL. LINK Consider contacting a county extension agent for whatever county in AL your pond is located for further information and assistance.

Dunn’s in Mississippi as already mentioned is also a good source of recreational fish fingerlings.

In a nutshell, now (Nov/Dec/Jan) is a good time to stock bluegill/redear sunfish (“bream”), largemouth bass are typically stocked in May/June, several + months after stocking “bream”.

5 acres...i would do a few hundred crappie and something for a baitfish that wouldn’t eat the crappie fry.

But I love crappie.