My pond is in east Texas,so I did what any red blooded LMB fanatic would do: Stocked the very best, superior LMB. Lone Star Legacy Floridas!
Visions of 8 lb bass in three years danced in my head as I carefully stocked RES, CNBG, TP, GSH, FHM etc as forage. Heck, I even got 4 feeders going to make sure the bass had plenty of CNBG to eat.
But the reality was quite different: 90 percent of them remained small per last fall's electro survey. Pond was too infertile, not enough brush, etc, etc. Whatever the reasons, the genetically superior strain was simply not working.
So last fall I had one hundred 1.5 to 2.0 lb feed trained northern LMB stocked. The idea was to bypass the biological bottleneck for small bass so they could dine are more abundant larger prey fish.
Results? Spectacular: I now see, & my friends & family have caught, numerous 2 to 3 lb bass. Some of them take the feed, some don't, but they appear quite fat. And aggressive!
Question: Are we so enamored of the idea of 10 lb plus bass that we overlook the positives of bass that top out around 7 or 8 lb?
