I looked back at Dinsmore's pre-bass stocking situation:
""The pond is 1acre and has only FHM, CNBG, and 3 dozen shiners. The CNBG where stocked in Dec and there are 18 adult CNBG and the FHM have been in over a year. There are thousands of new CNBG and FHM hacthlings from this year all over the pond. Plan on ordering 80 bass thinking I should have 50 or so make it to next year. Do ya have any advice to give on introducing new 2.5 inch bass fingerlings to a new pond?"" Bass stocking was ""So Wednesday I got my order from Suttles fish farm for 80 large mouth bass!! they are around 2- 2.5" and where in great shape! they where jumping all in the bag wanting to get into there new home. They are pellet trained so I released them by my feeder hoping some will be near by to know when it goes off and get some food. Since I have a daily feeding program for all my forage fish, im hoping that my bass will be a lil over a pound this time next year!""
In his pond with "thousands of new CNBG & FHM it is pretty obvious most of those 80 LMB survived. Now he will have to deal with a new crop of LMB in this spring's spawn which will be happening soon in Florida.
Since the stocker bass were pellet trained and if he is still pellet feeding the fish, there should still be some plump pellet eating bass present. If bass are eating pellets, I wonder if he has tried the Aquamax or similar brand of bass pellets to maintain bass body weight?
