Dave,

great post. I absolutly want the studies done on the smaller lakes/ponds if its not too much trouble. Not real interested in the larger lake data. I can see how weeds would help in a larger lake, concentrating baitfish in a much more diverse food chain.

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Gainesville, GA 30501

I never considered the nutrient rich soil. I have a few ponds on old cattle farms that absolutly have to have some marginal plants to keep nutrients down. Around here nutrients in the soil are hard to come by. bass are not hard to come by. most ponds around here are full of them. So full none of them grow. I remove around 20 pounds of bass per acre every year to keep the other bass growing. thats a job on a 100 acre lake.

I'll bet instead of having wimpy competing species like warmouth and green sunfish you guys have Northerns.

thanks for the info, look forward to reading it

Shan