Hey guys new to the forum and I'm wondering how you go about establishing your guidelines for culling lmb. This is for a 40 acre sand and gravel pit lake that has a bit of an overabundance of bass. Last year we kept all fish that were big enough to clean up to about 2 lbs (roughly 350 lbs in total). It's a bit early to tell for sure but based on my fishing in late Jan. I feel we're starting to catch chunkier fish on average. Although it was a step in the right direction IMO, do I need to stay this course or do something different?

thanks in advance, I look forward to getting to know this forum and its members.

Welcome Ty. Stay the course. After about the 2nd year of stocking, keep every bass 14 inches and under.

Stay the course, and start keeping length/weight records of the bass. Learn how to calculate relative weight. Once you see a certain size class of bass increasing in relative weight over the other sizes, then it's time to start shifting slot sizes.