In addition to fish n chips thread linked above, here are a couple free Pond Boss articles.
what to harvest and what to release by Bob Lusk selective harvest Ray Scott style Having harvested over 400 6-8" BG along and a few other GSF and HBG to try and thin out what I believe was getting to be an over crowded BG situation in my 3 acre pond, (never catch any small LMB indicating the BG were destroying any LMB recruitment) I was reviewing what literature was out there to see if what I did was good or bad. Having looked these articles up in the
Free Articles area of this web site, thought I would share the links and revive this thread.
fish n chips thread link for anyone that missed it above