Thanks to Snrub! I watched the video he recommended and was able to throw the small cast net successfully enough.
My forage pond is supposed to be a FHM only pond. Thanks to a few floods of my older refurbed pond, my forage pond that empties into it now has BG and LMB. I took out about 15 three inch class BG and one 3.5" LMB, and put into my older pond
Then I decided to sample my newer pond which is supposed to contain FHM, BG, RES stocked in March '17, plus the seven CC I stocked back in April this year. The first couple of throws I got BG as expected, then, on two successive throws I got a six inch and a five inch LMB. I put the LMB in my older pond.
I guess if one has ponds that spill into each other in a chain, one is going to get what I have. Chain = forage pond built Nov '15, pond renovated August '15, then the pond built December '16.
