I have not been happy with my LMB recruitment, having never seen any small LMB in the shallows and LMB being extremely hard to catch. Since I am trying for a pan fish pond, there should be numerous 12" LMB and I would think I should be catching at least some of them while fishing for BG. Nada. Not happening.

So I decided to go pro-active and put in some more LMB.

Picked up 100 LMB fingerlings from the Dunn's route truck. They were 3-4" long and looked to be healthy and active. Now I am aware that stocking small bass in a pond with big bass might be just making the big bass happy with bass snacks. But with the abundance of small BG I have and with the additional water level since raising the pond and giving a very nice ring around the pond with grass shallows, I'm hoping at least 50 survive and maybe even more. We will see.

There are sure a lot of minnows and baby BG utilizing the new shallows. So the new bass ought to have enough to eat.

If some survive, that ought to at least give me another size class.

Then I go out late afternoon to feed and have this floating up to the bank. mad
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Last edited by snrub; 10/29/16 10:22 PM.
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