Yikes!!!!! I could not find the relative weight chart on Pondboss but I found the Bob Lusk chart on another site... I've just realized my bass are underweight. I went to bed last night thinking I would have some great comments about how good my bass are doing.. it appears to my horror that the opposite is true.
Ok, What else can I do??? I have two Texas Hunter feeders going off... feeding approx 5# per day per feeder... When we bream fish we always catch tons of bream ranging in size from 3" and up....so I think we have plenty of forage, plus what we pumped into the pond...
Also... quoting the excerpt below from a web blog I found this morning (from Nate Herman)
"Take some time and think about this for a minute. If your bass is skinny, it simply cannot grow any longer. Even though the growing season we have is about 6-8 months, if your bass doesn�t have adequate forage for all 6-8 of those months, it will not ever reach its full potential. It may be really fat for 2 months and skinny for 10! On lakes I am managing for big bass, I will remove all bass from the lake that dont measure up to at least 100% Relative Weight at all times. In fact, some lakes I manage for really big bass, we eliminate all the bass under 115% Relative Weights!"
If I follow this rule of thumb I will have to remove every bass I've caught from my pond....
HELP I NEED AN EXPERT OPINION!!!
PS. Here is the quoted relative weight chart that the blog author attributes to Bob Lusk
Largemouth Bass Relative Weight Chart:
Length: Standard Weight
10 10 oz
11 11 oz
12 12 oz
12.5 15 oz
13 18 oz (1 lb 2 oz)
13.5 20 oz
14 23 oz (1 lb 7 oz)
14.5 26 oz
15 29 oz (1 lb 13 oz)
15.5 32 oz
16 36 oz (2 lb 4 oz)
16.5 40 oz
17 45 oz (2 lb 13 oz)
17.5 48 oz
18 52 oz (3 lb 4 oz)
18.5 57 oz
19 62 oz (3 lb 14 oz)
19.5 67 oz
20 72 oz (4 lb 8 oz)
20.5 78 oz
21 85 oz (5 lb 5 oz)
21.5 92 oz
22 99 oz (6 lb 3 oz)
23 114 oz (7 lb 2 oz)
24 131 oz (8 lb 3 oz)
Last edited by Pinetar; 07/25/11 08:32 AM.
7 Acre +/- pond. Stocked with CNBG, RESF, GS, TFS, FHM, in March - June of 2008, Stocked with 200 3" F1 Tiger Bass in March of 2010... Additional stockings of CNBG, Tilapia, FHM in May of 2011.April of 2012 and May of 2013.
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