First off, welcome to Pond Boss TZ, we're glad you found us.
I would like to be able to go out and cast for an hour and catch a few rather than only catch 1 or 2 a week.
In a pond the size of mine can I expect F1 to approach 10lbs because 7-10 lbs would be amazing. We are catching 8lb fish at our camp but they are pure florida bass in a 4 acre lake.
Just an observation from an amature. A pond can only hold so many fish. I don't know how many large (7 to 10 pound LMB) a 3/4 to 1 acre lake can support but I don't think it will be a lot of them. (The experts can address this much better than I, and there are many variables as to amount of fish any given pond can support). So if you had let's say 10 LMB that were in the 7 to 10 pound range you would be catching that same 10 bass over and over. So there becomes sort of a trade off between having trophy sized bass (which IMHO a 7 to 10 pound LMB qualifies, but then again I get all excited over a 4 pound LMB) and having a higher catch rate of LMB. Does that make any sense? We have bantered this about in another thread (trophy fishery versus higher catch rate fishery) but I can't find the thread right at this moment.
