Tracy -
You can have a lot of large LMB in a body of water. I fished a pond regularly for 3 months and almost every LMB landed was at least 5 lbs, and in any given week many 10+ LMBs were landed.
A couple of variables for this pond:
- Catch and release for all LMB
- Loads of forage fish in the pond, and on average 3 meals pumped in 5 days each week form a 6" diameter pipe (baitshop pumped out their dead and dying and weak baitfish into the pond)
This pond has turned over twice that I know of in the past 8 years. This Summer it turned over and it was amazing to see the entire pond surface covered in fish, many dead but many standing upright gasping for oxygen. The number of dead LMB in the 5-8 lb range was in more than 3 dozen. There were over 20 LMB larger than 10 lbs.
This pond has a surface area of approximately 1 acre, average depth of 6.5 feet.
