Congratulations Don! You have found the best run and most professionally moderated forum of which I have ever been a member. It is literally stuffed to the gills with information including the very technical all of the way down to the stuff that even I can understand. I have made some very great friends here.

As for the turtles - it is your preference but they are certainly not competing on any level with your bass for food.

Good advice from beastman about what you have going on. Take some time to fish, document every fish, and gather the data. (Tell your wife that you HAVE to fish in order to get things on the right track.) Once you have some good data you can present some findings for some feedback.

Use the search feature on the forum to narrow down what you need to read about. There is a panel of experts on here that have spent thousands of hours answering questions that the rest of us learn from.

Again, welcome and enjoy!