Bocomo, I definitely do need to get a decent scale, and make a Secchi disk. I've been very unscientific so far.

I should have laid out my data more clearly... The 8-8.5" that I mentioned was the size of most all of the BG we caught/harvested. We haven't caught or seen any LMB between 4" and 9.75". We still have yet to see any YoY LMB this year, though we have seen a pack of 3 LMB that I'd guess are probably about 4". Then we harvested a lot of LMB in the 10-11" range, and had a couple in the 12-14" range, and there's one more I keep seeing (but is uncatchable) that is probably about 12".