Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations stunted large mouth bass

There are lots of posts on too many bass why not to stock crappies, especially white crappies. Do a search I'm sure you'll get plenty of information. How to correct the problem? If all that is stocked is bass and crappie there isn't any forage to feed the fish except there own offspring which isn't enough. You could try stocking a forage species breeding stock large enough to escape predation of the crappie and bass and see what happens. With the assumption that your pond is several years old, you have more than 100 bass, and you have some type of forage fish for the bass and crappie other than their own young you probably have four choices: 1. remove as many bass and crappie as you can and stock more forage. 2. Poison the pond/killing all the fish (this will be expensive given the size. 3. Drain the pond 4. Drain most of the water and then poison. Options 2-4 would require restocking of course.