Pat I'm not sure....after being here two years my bcp have gone from nothing larger than 6", to nothing larger than 9". I'm hoping they get thinned out back into that healthy keeper range in the next few years now that the predator balance is back in play.

Before I moved here and started managing the pond for the hoa there was a great 10 year run of excellent crappie fishing - then one of the hoa members started keeping every bass they caught from the pond sending all other species into a terrible spiral.

Mat Peirce
1.25 acre southeast Iowa pond
LMB, BG, YP, WE, HSB, RES, BCP