Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Selective LMB Harvest

Question: Has anyone tried or considered controlling LMB numbers in a bass emphasis pond by selective seining - tossing out all the fingerling LMB collected during multiple seine hauls?

Probable advantage: Would not tend to remove easily hooked fish or train them to be hook shy.

Probable disadvantages: Like other LMB number control methods, would become harder to have an impact as pond size increased. Would be impossible in some ponds where structure/layout/depth does not permit seining.

Unclear to me: How would limiting LMB number at a smaller size affect the forage fish population - would forage fish size increase or decrease and if so, would this be good or bad from a trophy bass viewpoint?