They also released a great many that were in the 10" or less range, said the pond appeared to be heavy with them, and that, along with the big BG and occasional CC, made it difficult to actually focus on the larger bass.
If you have great big bluegill and lots of 10" bass, your buddy is doing the wrong thing here. He needs to be keeping all the small bass (ALL of them smaller than 14", say) and releasing the big ones.
