Hard to tell from angle of photo, but appears to be well beyond 100 WR. There are WR charts on the forum and throughout the Web, get some length and weight measurements next time and you can chart your progress. Again, it sure looks like this fish is well beyond 100 - and that's impressive size for an age 2 fish.
I guess it's really not fair to say these fish are 1 year old.
When I got them September 10th, 2014 ( last year) they were already 5-6 inches long and considered intermediate fingerlings.
So the Bass were probably 6-7 months old when I got them.
I do not know what 100 WR means.
I didn't want to poke any holes in her mouth with a scale and just taking holding her out for pics probably wasn't a good idea. But I had to get a photo because I doubt anyone would have believed me without pic proof. Personally, I was in disbelief at how large these fish have gotten.
The fish in the photo was well above 2 pounds. Probably closer to three pounds. Most certainly a female.
The others that I caught with exception to the 1st years spawn, were close but not the size of this one. 4 of those went probably in the 2's. And the rest were nice. Apparently they are not all growing at the same rate, which has me a little stumped because they were all fat like the one in the pic...except for 2 males which were long looking and not as stout, but still you could tell they had been feeding well. I started to cull them out but I do not know how many males I have in there. Didn't think it would be a good idea at this early stage. Additionally, I do not believe this fish to be the largest fish in my lake. I have seen some hit out there blowing bream 2-3 feet in the air and a few hitting them at the banks and blowing 20 or so small bream out on the banks. Youd swear it was a 4-5 pound fish, But I know that's just my mind playing tricks on me. Honestly tho, I have seen some violent hits out there that just makes me believe that I haven't caught the largest bass that are in there. I have a hell of a forage base , this much I know. I was by design. When I stocked the coppernose I made sure that I saw their spawn/babies, and quite a few of them before I put the bass in.
The fathead minnows that I had schools of last year at this time , have been decimated. No fathead minnows to be found, anywhere. The frogs are all gone too. The crawfish that I had here naturally also bit the dust. You can see why I needed a high bream to bass ratio, along with supplemental crawfish.
I also enlarged the lake this year and added about an acre, maybe a little less. I discovered at that time that I have about a million freshwater clams in there. Not sure if that's a good thing but from what I have read , they filter the water nicely.
It's really beautiful now.
So anyway, that's whats been going on with my pond experiment.
