I havnt thought of renovation but it is on 14 acres so anything is possible. I believe the catfish are channel cats, maybe 16" to 24" and the hybrids are striped bass / white bass around 18" or so. Each year they decrease in numbers but I think they are sterile anyway. The pond is fed from a two acre pond across a public road from my property. I usually carry a bucket when I fish and move the sunfish and crappie from my pond to the neighboring pond. I have lots of cover from lillies and a few fallen trees that I put in but the LMB are still small. Can I even grow a decent size bass in a pond this small. Even though the water is dark and has steep banks with roots and so on, you can see fish on their beds 2 feet down. I do have a few muskrats that are cracking the snails and eating the meat. Should I use a weed killer to get rid of the lilies and watershield. The pond was 60% covered this summer even though I cut them below the surface with hedge trimmers in July.