How big is the pond?. This will have an impact on "afternoons catching nice sized (fat three or four pound) smallies". The larger the pond the more chance there will be more numbers of the larger bass. It is a carrying capacity type of thing. Predominance of larger bass will be difficult in a smaller pond without pellet feeding. I think for non-pellet fed ponds having only occasional visitor management one should expect one to two pound smallies due to too much smallie reproduction, not enough monitoring and frequent mgnt and them tending to overeat the food source, i.e. too crowded.
If you could control or prohibit the SMB reproduction then the plan would be much easier to achieve the goals.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 05/04/15 09:17 AM.
