James,

That's a nice LMB. Personally I would rather catch those all day long as opposed to searching for one big LMB. That size of LMB puts up a good fight. I was like you at one time also (I kind of still am). I cant decide whether I want to be able to go out and catch a bunch of decent sized LMB or just a couple realy Large LMB. I would like to have both scenarios available (imagine that an pondmeister want's it all :D) After a lot of thought a blanced pond with a good catch rate of healthy LMB is a more suitable goal for me (but I still have a dream of catching a 10 lb+ LMB from my pond).