Also note - when LMB are too few per acre with BG, overabundant BG can actually keep the LMB from producing small bass each year by eating most if not all bass eggs and fry. This has occurred in snrub's and many other ponds. So if DRG does not stock enough bass or too few LM stockers survive, over abundant BG can still occur when LMB are present. The original bass keep getting bigger and few if any new bass are added naturally from reproduction each year. IMO he does not want to annually have to add small predators to his pond. It would work, but it is inconvenient.
Bingo. As we have discussed before and Bill has pointed out, I am satisfied that is exactly what happened in my situation. The BG got the upper hand on my LMB and I am just not getting any LMB recruitment. I'm growing out 100 LMB to 12" size to transfer to my main pond right now to try and rectify that situation. A friend did catch a couple of 12" LMB recently from the pond so I think at least a few of the 100 additional fingerling LMB I directly stocked in 2017 survived predation (or they could have been recruitment's from my own adult LMB) so I hope the turn around has already started. During feeding I am seeing a good mix of BG from 3" on up but am not seeing excessive numbers of the 3" size. So I think things are heading in the right direction.
