Just to add my opinion, I think sometimes we offer too much to our fish. A really good forage and feeding program and I seldom catch a LMB. The BG are just easy, but the larger ones are full from all the small ones. Or at least that is the way I see it. A friend with a nice large pond, mine is half-acre, says he stops feeding them 2-3 days before he wants to fish, just so the are hungry. Maybe that is the answer to better catches.

half-acre pond, LMB, HBG, BG, GSH and CC ....goal is to
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