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What I provided above for you was for a trophy LMB lake. Your goal is the key. Trophy LMB lakes have fewer LMB of bigger size with limited fishing to avoid the catchability problem. You get a few big bites. In that case catch and eat a few of the BG. A 3 acre trophy LMB pond with 100 8 lb LMB will have 266 lbs of predators per acre and 800 total lbs of predators. To keep them at 8 lbs they will each need 10 lbs of forage a year or 1000 lbs of BG , shad , shiners etc. To get to 9 lbs they will need twice that amount.

You can , and many of us do , have a balanced pond with LMB reproduction. But know in advance that while you can have a couple trophies in the mix keeping balance in a LMB/BG pond is like balancing on a knife edge. Their normal condition is to revert to the mean and be either LMB crowded or BG crowded.

Last edited by ewest; 02/22/13 02:58 PM.