Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations bass population analysis?

Well, it depends! How many years was your pond unmanaged? If left to her own devices, nature tends to balance things out if given enough time. Maybe 20-25 years ago this pond was just like yours was earlier this year?

There's a local lake that was 99% killed in 1969 with rotenone. In the years after it was re-stocked, the fishing was very good, but over the ensuing years, it's gone downhill. The LMB aren't stunted, but they have decreased in numbers greatly. I think that if they had remained in numbers they would be stunted insead of normal WR's just like you are seeing in the pond that you are starting to manage.