Great post TJ, just the kind of moral support and info. I'm looking for. However it's a little late on the SMB spawning substrate. I have ALOT of rock in the pond and it's not coming out. Hopefully I didn't shoot my self in the foot by providing too much. Maybe heavy silt will in time help me take care of some of that.;) I plan to work on the SMB population really hard and remove whatever necessary to keep the numbers down. I never eat bass, but sounds like its a real possibility in the near future.

I'm with you on the YP I love them as well,but was willing to give that up in order to reach my goal of trophy SMB. It is very reassuring to hear you say that the YP probably wouldn't make the kind of impact on the forage base as I thought they may.

Last edited by JamieE; 04/03/14 12:08 PM.