Thanks for all of this advice. It is all sounding like things that could have happened and things I will try. I will say that I would add 1-2 female lmb every couple years from other ponds to my pond. I had read something on here a long time ago about mixing genetics in with the tiger bass. In an hour of fishing I would say I can catch between 3-4 bass right now. In the past when the tiger bass were 5-10 years old I could catch 15-20 bass of all sizes an hour. What are you guys thoughts on getting more recruitment for bluegill 3-5”? I have a feeder that goes off twice a day and they eat all the food. I have a lot of large trophy bluegill and I can see lots of 1-3” bluegills in the shallow areas. Maybe the 3-5” size range is holding some of these lmb back from growing more than 14-16” long. I took out about 200 large bluegills last summer thinking this might make more room for the 1-3” bluegills to grow into the 3-5” range. I do have 3-5” range bluegill in the pond, but I would say that size range has the lowest numbers in the pond. I wish I could get tilapia in NC. I feel like that would add the extra forage to help push the bass over the edge and let them continue growing. The large bass we used to catch, 6-10 pounds, would often have large trophy brim tails hanging out of the back of their throats.