Thanks for all the info. You don't catch/see many 8-12" bass. I'll try a beetle-spin though to just see. But you Do see 2-4" bass swimming along the shoreline. Im almost wondering if the bass being 16" on average are feeding heavily on the 3-6" yoy bass every year to the point of almost deleting that size class. This might inturn be providing the extra help keeping the 16" bass in decent shape yet causing there numbers to remain consistant(low recruitment) and not get severely overpopulated or stunted. Im confident to almost certain that the BG are not there. I pay a lot of attention and sometimes just troll around the bank of my ponds and assess whats goin on. In the ponds were my BG numbers are good, in the spring, you see 3-6" BG all the time along the edge. In this pond they just are not there.

Maybe the pond is just in balance. Maybe you can have low BG and a smaller than normal bass population and be just as balanced as have 1000 BG per acre and 100 bass per acre.

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