Thanks for the replies! I just subscibed to the magazine and I am very excited. I am definitely focusing on a trophy bass fishery. the only other species present are bream/minnows. Except an older gentleman told me he put about 20 2-3 pound catfish in about 10 years ago but I have been heavily bass fishing the pond the last decade and have never caught one accidentally while bass or bream fishing, even with live bait. So I can't say they are there or not. Also, a friend of mine caught about a 10 inch shiner looking fish last year by accident. Outside of those two instances, I only know of bass/bream/minnows. The pound is in south louisiana. The land has a lot of bottoms and ridges, and the pond appears to have been naturally created a long time ago by a beaver dam from a creek that must have run through a valley between two ridges. I don't know much about water quality but I can say we have never had a random fish kill in my memory. It does get quite muddy sometimes from runoff, if you can picture it being between two ridges. Very little fishing pressure. I think this has contributed to being overrun with 1/2 pounders. In addition I don't believe there are any shad, just little minnows. But there is a decent bream population.