Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations growing extra large lmb with crappie as a forage

My only comment is by looking at those figures (and I think they are pretty accurate except Shiners are closer to $10-$15 per pound here) is that having a forage pond where you can grow and move 100-500 (or more) pounds of forage fish to the big pond per year looks more cost effective than before.

Now think about what Bill said about the cost of food per LMB. Multiply that by the number of trophy LMB in the pond and what numbers do you come up with?

Then add in the other "not trophy" LMB in the pond that also need forage food and the numbers are pretty staggering.