Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Bass Mortaity

Raising trophy bass is a fun mixture of habitat, food chain, genetics and selective harvest. Trying to understand what percentage of originally stocked fish might survive is more of an exercise of figuring out what it takes to manage the dynamics of a food chain, protecting the largest bass in the population, while delicating promoting adequate recruitment of new bass each year. All the while, you have to pay attention to the food chain of what each size class of predator fish has available at any given moment. It's really fun, and challenging.