Pond Boss Forums INTRO New Forum Member Introduction New pond...need help

Got confirmation of what I expected. Ran into someone who fished the pond several times under the previous owner. He told him not to take any bass, but take all the bluegill he wanted. He would take 30-40 bluegill a day several days a week in the summer. No wonder my bass have a RW of .75. Continuing to keep everything under 14 inches until my RW improved. Will add bluegill and redear in the spring. Working on additional structure and improving the water quality also (testing kit in hand).

I agree about using the 1 ac pond as a forage pond to stock the large pond. It wouldn't take much to drain it down a bit (4'-5'), rotenone it, then restock with feed trained BG and RES, feeding them all they can eat.

Use a seine with 2"-3" mesh and just transfer adult panfish to the large pond. After a few years of transferring fish to the large pond, and removing LMB and catfish from the large pond, you should see a good turn around in it.

Once that happens, you could fish the large pond pre-spawn and transfer some female LMB to the 1 ac pond. Females only and be sure of that. With the forage in the small pond, the LMB should get pretty fat!! Female only so you don't have reproduction, and you still can use the 1 ac pond as a forage pond for the large pond.