snrub, FHM will feed your BG, but the most fun and surest course of management is keeping good records on fish removed (weight, length, body condition, sex if possible to tell and species) and if you begin to notice a drop/increase in any given species size class, it can be seen right away. Removing X amount of LMB annually along with some of the older and larger BG will keep you with plenty. of pan size fish to catch.
Thankyou very much for that advice. I also have CC and have been warned that I should start harvesting some of them also at about 2#, or they will become a problem. Thanks to everyone on this site for all the good advice.
Something that seems far too common in our area for casual fishermen is for someone to catch some bass and put them in a farm pond after catching a couple decent size ones in the BOW they want better fishing (typical low-no management farm pond). Their thinking is, they need to put some more bass in there so they will grow up big. Then all they have is small bass to catch, unknowingly adding to an already over crowded bass population. It really helps to see the need for balanced populations of everything from algae all the way through the food chain to the apex predators, in order to grow those larger fish. PBF has been a pleasant as well as informative source to figure these type things out.
