Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking What do I need to do?

O.K. then. Look in the archives for a Relative Weight chart on LMB. Get a good scale and measuring device and start a log of WR (relative weights) on the fish that you catch. If the fish are under 100 (actual weight divided by weight on the chart) then you need to start taking out all the individuals that are under weight.

I'm talking about LMB here. Typically a pond that has large BG and thin LMB is called bass crowded and there isn't enough food for the LMB to get any larger. Adding food isn't really a cost effective option because it takes 10# of forage to put 1# on a LMB.

It's not a quick fix, it'll take a year or so to start seeing results. You could speed up the process if you can electro shock the BOW and take out large quantities of underweight fish.