snrub makes some very good points that I agree with. To grow your big bass you will need to keep bass density low and forage abundant. Your biggest challenge as I see it will be to keep the bass numbers reduced, lower than most ponds, so they always have plenty of high density EASY to catch larger sized prey. Like DD1 often says, the bass should be able to just open their mouth and fish are there to eat. Doing that will be a big challenge. LMB are always wanting to overpopulate that keeps available prey to less than optimum for best growth. Skewing the fishery to few bass/ac and high density prey will be your goal. If it were my pond, I would resort to regularly catching BG and hand feeding them to the biggest bass so they did not have to work hard for their food - eating daily, getting fat with little excercise.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 01/11/16 05:44 PM.
