When you put in your bass purchase feed trained bass that are readily available in most areas. Then feed them once or twice a day a high protein low carb diet (Order a bag of 45/16 steelhead feed from Nelson and Sons in Utah via UPS and it should last you three months if you do not have too many bass), and watch them grow a lot faster and have higher conditions rates than wild fed bass.

If you feed you can have a higher density in a pond than if you don't. My bass grow a pound a year up here in the north. You should be able to get better growth than that down there.

If I had a small pond like yours this is the option I would pursue. In fact some growers growth out larger bass this way in ponds. The offspring will be eaten by the larger bass and catfish. And you may have to do some thinning of the smaller non feed trained bass (offspring). It will be easy to tell which ones they are as they will be skinny compared to the fed bass.

I'd put in about 50 five to seven inch bass.

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