I would say they are also doing well, they look healthy and plump. I don't have any monsters but an 8 inch gill is fun for a little guy to reel in. I could easily get smallmouth I just don't want too. I fish about a dozen tournaments a year from Lake St Clair to the Thousand Islands and everywhere in between and they are mostly smallmouth.
Fishing in this pond for me is mainly a winter thing, We set up the portable hut, shovel off the ice and have a fun day. I sit in the hut with an ice fishing rod and a beer while the kids and there friends skate.
This is the first year that there seems to be a lot of YOY BG and Greenies , I think there is two things that could contribute to this. One my milfoil is really taking off and this is the first spring that I missed the Shiner run and didn't put in a cooler full of adult Emeralds. I really believe they gobble up the newly hatched fry.
