No question-take them out now.
Remember, those bass got stunted and skinny trying to forage on their own offspring.....if young LMB were worth trying to use as primary forage, LMB ponds wouldn't stunt so quickly and severely.
Or, looking at the problem from another angle, even a small number of surviving yoy LMB will put a real hurt on your yoy BG as they grow throughout their first year. I really put the hammer down on my 2acre, bass heavy pond two years ago, with an almost immediate improvement in fish quality, but slacked off last year as I got busy with other pond projects. So far this spring, I've caught a lot of 8-13" fish that I'm sure I should have been removing more aggressively. I won't make that mistake again.
