Here is the thing to keep in mind, even though the largemouth bass look healthy you have to always look a couple years out and be proactive as much as possible. The largemouth bass may always look healthy, but even healthy bass will have a huge dramatic impact on your entire population of fish....
If you were catching 100 bluegill/perch for every 15 bass I wouldnt be nearly as concerned, but when your catching 3 bluegill/perch per 15 bass during the winter I would be thinking about a new game plan....you will never run out of bass in that lake, so the catch and release thing for them is actually your biggest enemy towards the future....
It is virtually impossible to hold onto a perch population in a pond that has an abundance of largemouth bass. I havent seen it yet. Has anyone out there seen a 10 acre or less body of water hold onto a high perch population consistently along with a high bass population???
