Brandon, That is a good point. In last years electrofishing survey the largest bass that they shocked up was 10 pounds and 8 ounces. Had multiple fish over 8 pounds. Relative weight percentages ranged from 88 percent to 125 percent. So I am thinking that I do have a healthy bass population. They did recommend harvesting every bass 12" and under which I did and succeeded in taking 200 +/- over the remainder of the year.

I have another survery scheduled for later this month to see how the pond is progressing. I have taken out 30 12" and under already this year and my plan is to keep everything 12" and under that we catch.

My bream population is crazy!! I have 4 feeders that go off simultaneously and sometimes I schedule my day just to be able to watch it. Its aggressive to say the least. This year we have caught quite a few bream between 1.5 and 2 pounds. I have noticed that the kids are not catching as many of the little tiny bream that they have in years past. Another reason I am thinking that the bass are pounding the young bream population and that maybe I need some additional forage stocking.

Out of the 20 or so 5 pound plus bass that we have caught this spring only one of them seemed to be "poor" he had a very large head but did not have the body to match. If I can figure out how to load a picture in a post I will come back and do that.

I will also be stocking Tilapia again this year after not being able to do it last year.

7 Acre +/- pond. Stocked with CNBG, RESF, GS, TFS, FHM, in March - June of 2008, Stocked with 200 3" F1 Tiger Bass in March of 2010... Additional stockings of CNBG, Tilapia, FHM in May of 2011.April of 2012 and May of 2013.