EWEST,
I have also seen those assertions over the years and believe it certainly is possible. When fishing in salt water for years, it was always a given that if you hooked and lost that first fish in a school, your chances of catching another went down considerably. Superstition, perhaps, but perhaps not.
Your points also support a growing belief that I have that several small ponds are better than one large pond, from a LMB catchability standpoint and an overall pond management standpoint. That statement, if true, has significant implications to pond construction in the future.
I'm facing a very real such implication right now and I'm very strongly leaning toward the construction of more 2 to 5 acre ponds rather than one much larger pond.
My objectives are to have naturally self-sustaining ponds that are chemical free and will reliably produce good catches of predator fish for good anglers...with the real chance of an occasional trophy. Multiple ponds seem to afford the best opportunity to meet that objective.
