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Explaining a little more what the two post above are telling you, reduce the LMB population and the BG population will spring back quickly without any additional fish stocked. As long as there are too many hungry bass for the forage base to feed them, the BG population will have problems recovering.
The LMB population will come back later easily once you have your BG forage base in good shape.
Remove LMB, add cover like you have been, set up a feeding program to boost the current BG population, use aeration so the fish can use all the water depth available. Save your money on FHM as the bass will simply wipe them out before they can spawn. Anything you stock that is less than 1/3 the length of your largest bass will become VERY expensive feed. Pelleted feed is a lot cheaper.
If you want to add some diversity to the gene pool, buy some large adult BG or catch them from another source. Large enough so your largest bass can't eat them. If you and your budies could catch 30 or so 7-8" Quality BG from another BOW that would give the BG genetics and breeding population a boost. I upgraded non-existant BG population in my old pond by doing just that by catching adults from my main pond.
Last edited by snrub; 05/22/16 05:25 PM.
