Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait Needing help to ballance a 20+ acre lake for LMB!

If the pond is truly LMB stunted, you'll need to take out somewhere around 30# of LMB per acre. That's a LOT of fish to be removed via angling pressure. Will all the people fishing have a ruler, a scale and a WR chart?

That's why it's easier to take them out when they're shocked.

Adult BG, like ewest said, 6"-8" in length.

Here's something to ponder. One Largemouth Bass needs to eat 10# of fish per year to gain one pound in weight. Multiply that by the number of LMB in the pond and you see what you're up against. HBG don't have a high enough fecundity rate to support a population of LMB.

There are other fish that get large enough to eat LMB, but the problem with them is that you can't tell them just to eat the underweight LMB......