My half-acre pond is bass heavy. When I fish it, I remove all the 10 inch and smaller LMB that I land. Unfortunately I have been in Iraq for the past year and looks I won't be coming home until August of 2010. That means I can fish my pond only once or twice a year on while home on R&R which isn't enough time to remove the small bass.
I never do any feeding or fertizing and no one else fishes the pond. It is located in a rural, undeveloped spot so predators like herons are undisturbed. The max. depth will vary in a year, with rainfall/runoff, from 7 to 10 ft. I've never experienced winter kill or anything like that.
I am wondering what happens over time in a bass heavy pond when there isn't enough fishing pressure to manage the LMB/BG ratio. Some of the BG are hybrid and others are regular. Will the pond eventually reach an equilibrium? Or will it continue to fill will small bass until there is a dieoff?
