Lake Thompson,

I have a 1-7/8 acre pond that is now 2 years old here in central Louisiana. I too thought of the expense of the CB verses pure Florida LMB.

My thought process at that time was, what is my goal for my fishery verses available funds. I ended up comprimising and stocked 75 Florida LMB and 25 CB. I understand this is on the light side of stocking but with my limited funds, I thought I could introduce additional CB in the future as I manage my body of water.

I stocked my bass from Overton's in the July of 2012 that was stocked previously in Jan. of 2012 with 10 lbs of FHM, 1,000 CNBG, 500 NBG, 300 Readear, 25 CC & 18 HSB. I feed Auqamax and have aeration in 3 sections of the pond.

The data of caught fish are as follows:

2/09/13 - 11" 9 oz CB
2/10/13 - 11" 9 oz Florida LMB
4/28/13 - 12" 1 lb CB
12" 1 lb 1 oz CB
12" 1 lb 1.1 oz CB
6/26/13 - 12" 1 lb 3 oz CB

From information I have gathered from this site, I believe I am above the relative weights.

I know this doesn't answer your question but wanted to offer the data I had captured thus far hoping this my help you make a decision.

The bass fight hard, they were caught on worms in the shallows while feeding on minnows and small Bluegill. My assumption is once the Florida LMB and CB cross, I should have additional benefit of fight plus size that should make the kids hearts race to max pace and their mind dance like the stars.

Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give all the details to explain the results I have listed.

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