John even if you can get some of the fish out, it should help a lot. As the water gets lower the fish concentration in pounds of fish per gallon of water gets higher. Removing any amount of fish has to help reduce that concentration level. That should help the remaining fish and help with water quality.
I've been removing lots of GS and some RES from my tiny 1/20th acre forage pond for just that reason. Reduce the fish concentration for the winter months on such a small pond to help prevent any problems.
I would think the smaller the BOW in my case(or the amount of water in the BOW in your case) everything becomes more critical a lot more quickly if things start to go bad. It just seems logical to me that a larger BOW would have more buffering capacity for problems. Thus a person would need to manage the smaller BOW's (or reduced water levels in BOW's) more carefully.
Last edited by snrub; 10/28/16 11:06 AM.
