I guess I could have explained that this was from a pond being drained and all the fish where being harvested. This was the only picture taken as this gentlemans wife caught this one while the water was being drained. There was 200 original bass stocked in this and there was around 10 bass between 10 to 12# in the pond. Everything else under 8# which made me think that the 10 to 12 pounders where from the original stocking.

Jakeb it has been my take here that a stocked fingerling bass will reach that size anywhere from 6 to 10 years depending on how the pond is maintained. I would be suprized if over 5% of the bass here live to be older than 10 yrs.