mnfish, its hard in the real world to get that technical to do what you just described in depth, but it sure would be a fun experiment to move a batch of fish from pond to pond each loaded with their optimum forage!
Ozark, you are definitely onto something! Start digging up that data (or are you hoping your suggestions will spur on Eric West to do the actual searching)
Ken, you and Esshup already put in 'other' ponds and hatchery ponds before reading this thread- Why? what where you thinking?? Why put in smaller ponds when you already have nice sized ponds!
Docg down in North Carolina is raising awesome smallmouth bass in a pond already loaded with big largemouth bass. Common 'fisheries' knowledge tells him that it can't or shouldnt be done, but with his cages and hatchery pond he is overcoming the natural odds and growing "trophy" (north carolina trophy) smallmouths!
Now that Bill Cody has helped define what industry standard Trophy sized fish are, I am still hoping to hear about more people's experiences with trophy fish? Come on surely you folks out there have raised or caught a trophy fish!
