Well because of the weather and just being busy, I had not fished the pond since December. During December I removed between 300 and 350 pounds of fish.
I decided to get back at it this weekend, knowing that the fish are either spawning or about to. I really don't think they have because we have had a good bit of ice and snow over the last couple of weeks and the water temp has been in the 40s until recently.
Over three outings, about two hours each I caught 23. All fish were considerably healther looking, a few actually looked like footballs, so I am confident that I have at least improved things somewhat. Many of the fish were also full of eggs.
There are many fish up really shallow, two feet or less, no doubt getting ready to spawn, but I am going to fix that tonight. My son had the bright idea to slow them down I just need to drop the water level about two feet. That will buy me a few more days. Then I may drop it a couple more feet a few days later.
My plan now is to remove as many more bass as I can over the next week or so and add a good bit more forage. Then add what I know to be full strain Florida large mouth, either fingerlings or full grown.
If I can come up with some adult Florida's, I was thinking of dumping in a thousand or so pounds of crawfish, to help keep them off of my other forage. What does everyone think about that?
