New to PB and I really enjoy reading you guys' posts and learning new things. Only bad thing is that PB keeps me up too late and sometimes I cannot sleep because I have a zillion pond things running through my mind. I just bought a place here in central mississippi that has a 1.5 acre pond, I do not know much about it but I think it is an old pond but recently made deeper and trees/stumps added within the last 5 years. It is about 12 feet at the deepest, has plenty of shallow shaded areas and grass/trees around the edges. There is a ton of trees, timber, branches underwater, too much almost. I recently added 1000 FHM, 500 BG/CNBG, 50 CC, 50 HSB. I added the FHM and BG's to add to the forage base which I believe to be a bit lacking, there are huge BG's in there but I can only catch a few a day along with the smaller ones. The bass I've caught tend to be skinny and do range from 12" to 20+ inches. In the summer I would fish it in the evening for a few hours and on a good day I would catch 5-6 LMB...not many. I haven't sent a water sample off yet to test parameters but my water is clear but dark like tea. I didn't want to lime or fertilize until I know it is the right thing to do. Is the tea like water ok or is it a symptom of something? I'm just trying to grow a balanced fishery that I could have fun fishing at. I been fishing it for a week now and all I've caught is 1 LMB, of course dark but healthy looking fish 14" with a big belly on him.
