Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations heavy bass harvest but no real growth?

scag, welcome to Pond Boss! I'd like to get more information about the LMB. Do you have a scale that weighs in ounces, or tenths of a pound? A real good indicator of fish growth is the relative weight of a fish. It is usually expressed as WR. There is a chart in the archives that gives WR figures of 100 for all types of different fish. Go catch a few LMB, get accurate length/weight measurements (down to 0.1 of a pound) and compare those weights/lengths to the chart. If they are close to what the chart reads, then the LMB have enough food and your culling efforts have done some good. If they are under that by a bunch, then you still have a lot of LMB to take out. If over that by a bunch then you have done very well in your culling efforts.

A larger BOW (Body of Water) like that might need more aggressive culling, and that might nessitate having a pond management service come in and electrofish the pond to get a really good survey of the BOW. They can cull out a bunch of under WR LMB at the same time, if there are too many LMB in the BOW.