I finally got a small sampling of what I'm catching out of the pond. This is a few hours of fishing and I only weighed and measured the ones that were a decent size. The ones that didn't get weighted were a few BG that were able to bite the larger hook. I caught everything on an in-line spinner or texas rigged worm.
I'm not positive that these are just BG I caught a few that had small mouths and a few large ones with really large mouths. The small bass can be seen at all hours of the day in the shallows jumping out of the water feeding on insects that have fallen in the wate I assume.
So, I leave it to the experts what do you think this pond needs to thrive. I want bigger fish. The forage seems to be there as I can see tons of 1" to 3" fish swimming in the shallows. Why aren't these LMB growing with tons of forage base?
