What's a reasonable chance? Remember this pond is only fished semi-annually (and I should add has never been artificially fed and never will be, and contains only pure native bass). The chances are 50% based on the last two years, of catching a 5 pound plus bass. I've already caught one on this spring's trip on a squirrell nymph, no less...a number 12 hook.
Where else can you go and have a 50% chance of catching a 5 pound bass in a 2 hour fishing session? With the Tilapia in that pond, I fully expect that to be a 50% chance of catching a 7 pound bass this fall or next spring. I like those odds. I don't know of anywhere else I can get those odds...Lake Fork included.
And this is only a 3/4 acre pond and 3/4 is being generous. I can not wait until my 2 acre pond with the F1s and Tilapia have another year on them.
I expect in that case to have a 50% chance of catching two or three bass in excess of 5 pounds each 2 hour visit. Think I'm crazy, come on over this fall or next spring and I'll prove it to you...it will only get fished twice a year, but man those two times are pure Ecstasy.
Now to scale up, if I had three or four such small ponds and 1 larger pond for the more frequent BG, HSB, and LMB fishing, then I believe I would never leave that place to go to the Bahamas or Mexico again...it would be the very best fishing experience I can imagine anyone having...outside of Alaska.
p.s. correction, I should have said "come on over a year from this fall and fish the 2 acre pond". No fishing until then at the earliest, but the invite is open for the 3/4 acre pond.
