Quick glance at the picture to me shows a skinny male RES in spawning colors.
A LMB has to weigh a certain weight to get to a certain length. Once it's that length, then it can lose weight. But for the life of me I don't know if that's 100% WR, 90% or 80%.
You cannot throw forage fish into a stunted LMB pond and expect the LMB to thrive. There would be too many forage fish needed and you would exceed the carrying capacity of the pond.
You might have to drop it more than that to concentrate the fish in a smaller area.
For a pond to grow good sized LMB, expect it to have 50-75 LMB per surface acre. Figure 25-40 sunfish in the pond for every LMB. (or adult catfish)
