I have about a 4 acre pond thats maybe 25 years old. It a perfect square shape with good water quality. Its full of 12-14" northern bass that are all a little thin and probably stunted, and also contains a bunch of hybrid bluegill in the 5-6" range.
What I'd like to do is turn it around to start first getting my bass population healthy and then further working to grow some big fish.
What im thinking is intensively removing the stunted bass. I probably could take out 200 fish and even more if thats not enough.
Then Im thinking spring 09' I could introduce say 60 pure Florida bass that are 1Lbs each = New genetics, young healthy fish, and will get F1's probably in the next spawn. That should help.
Also I could drop in say 500 4-6" CNBG to start establishing throughout the growing season.
This would be next year. The main priority though would be removing stunted bass.
Would this plan do any good or am I not putting in enough Florida's or CNBG in or taking enough bass out. Im a little short of funds, that right there is about $1240 already.
In 2010 I'll have 2 more forage ponds avaliable to grow shiners/shad or more bluegill to get things really rolling.
