Great story and best of luck!

My one piece of advice -- buy a good scale. Getting paired length-weight measurements and sampling all species present in the pond is a great way to figure out what's really going on.

For example, I strongly suspect that if all the bass you're catching are 8-8.5" then their body condition is not actually that good -- which can actually be desirable depending on your goals.

Our old pond project (updated 4/11/17)
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