Fishing weekend with the guys. Cold here and a big front moved through so fishing was ok but not great. Hardly any fish coming to the feeder as water temps were around 60 on Friday and Saturday. As we enter year 4 of managing our 3 ponds i have high expectations. We caught a nice female LMB full of eggs that weighed almost 4 lbs. and a few others just shy of 3 lbs. This is in a 1.6 acre pond that was full of stunted bass 3 years ago. After the initial harvest of 40 per surface acre i stocked in a bit more than 50 1.25 lb. fish in June of 2017 along with 400 adult (5-7") BG. On a maintenance harvest plan since last season of 15-20 LMB under 14" per surface acre per year.

Very exciting seeing the results and expecting to catch some 5 pounders out of there this season. The big female (with eggs) posted a 150 relative weight and more than 85% of the fish we caught were in excess of 85 RW with most in the mid-to-upper 90s to just over 100. That is a huge improvement in just under 2 years post-stocking.

Also put the second dose of copper sulfate in our "Big Lake" (6.5 acres) yesterday....put in 50 lbs. using the burlap bag dispensing method. That was half the initial spring dose we put in 5 weeks ago. Going to try and keep on top of it this year so when our annual Cast & Blast event occurs in mid-September we are not fighting FA for five days of fishing (and dove shooting).

Gotta love progress. BM61.

Last edited by bassmaster61; 05/06/19 03:38 PM.