Originally Posted By: Scott Francis
LOL, let the jokes begin. I've been involved, fished, hung around this pond for 20 years. For 20 years the owner has always called it a one acre pond and I went with it. Now that we are trying to actively manage it I took my golf laser rangefinder to the pond and measured it's length and width, its over 2 Acres!!! I am well aware of how to calculate area/acreage/volume/.... I teach high school math including AP Calculus, trigonometry.... How have I gone all this time without ever realizing that the pond is much larger than an acre? Oh well. Maybe that explains why I was shocked with the 50lb limit on LMB when I was sure there was nearly 100lb in this pond.

So, moving forward, I haven't done any fishing the past week so no new data to present. I plan on doing a bunch of fishing in the next few weeks and keep records of everything. I want to get a plan for stocking and culling that will get the balance back.

Thanks for listening. Scott


Here's an easier way to measure it. No math involved, and it's easy to do if the pond is irregular in shape.

http://www.acme.com/planimeter/

www.hoosierpondpros.com

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