Actually many LMB are eating machines their entire life, it is just many water bodies especially smaller ones have limited amounts of the proper numbers and sizes of food for the bass as they grow past the 3-4 lb range, thus the bass seem to slow down quite a bit in growth as they get larger. Not necessarily. Midsize LMbass may show slowed growth in length, but if continually properly fed, these older trophy bound bass are adding annually the same amount of extra body mass in terms of girth compared to the length-weight added as younger individuals. In ponds, it is often too many medium-large bass per acre are over eating the food base to maintain the best growth possible for all the large bass. Bruce Condello is proving this in his Nebraska quarry by hand feeding some bass all they can eat daily. Two types of bass condition factor in this thread.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=252896&page=11

After a few years of proper feeding these bass grew to this. See the thread for two examples.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=352435&page=10

Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/21/15 06:13 PM.
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