We stocked our pond and have some good bass in there. I'll "fish" with the kids (mostly doing rod maintenance and helping my son with bait) sometimes when they want to, but rarely get to just go out and have fun.
My "bass pond" is a huge failure. It, between Winter and Summer, runs from 1/2-1 acre. When I bought the place, it was sold as a bass pond, but the only bass I have ever seen in it were the couple hundred fingerlings I stocked, which I believe were promptly eaten by the local herons. During irrigation season, I have a separate inlet pipe to the pond that I will open for a couple of hours once a week or so to "top off" the pond. I will often end up with smaller bluegill, crappie, and catfish getting suckled in (the water comes from the irrigation drain running by the pond).
Otherwise it is more appropriately a carp pond. Which is not all bad. I bought a bowfishing setup a couple of years ago that I will use (poorly) to thin out the carp a bit. Also, though I don't want to deal with preparing the bony things as food, they are actually really fun on a fly rod. They put up a good fight.
What I need to do is figure out how to get some larger bass transported here for planting. They would survive the predators better than fingerlings, and possibly establish as a permanent species, much as the carp have.