A friend of mine has a pond that is overrun with stunted LMB. He says we could catch a bunch and transfer them to my pond once I stock it next year. My pond is small and freshly drained, dugout and rebuilt - no fish in it. I plan to try to set the pond up as a BG pond using LMB as the population police. My questions may be moot because a stunted bass population is what I am after, but...

Will my friend's stunted bass grow larger if given the environment to grow further?

Will their offspring have "small genes" which would limit their growth regardless of environment?

With my plans for the bigger BG pond, I could save a few bucks, have a good day of fishing with my friend and help his pond out (a little maybe) by removing some biomass.

Your thoughts?

Fish on!,
Noel