Growing more than 6 or 10 LMB at 2-3 lbs and harvestable larger bluegill on natural foods in 0.3 to 0.5ac takes very good hands on management, but it can be done especially with selective harvest and using feed trained LMB. With good management, pellet feeding, and aeration I think for a novice it would be possible to grow 30 to 40 2-3 lb bass (90-120 lbs) with BG in a 0.5 ac.
Cecil Baird, a trophy fish production grower and past forum member, using pellet fed LMB, grew them to 2 to 6 lbs high density in 0.75 ac. Total bass weight was over 800 lb/ac and estimated to be 1200 lb/ac. There are pictures of some of those bass somewhere in the forum history; although I can't find it.
Discussion of growing bass in smaller ponds
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=11266http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=96912What do you want to know about my pellet trained bass? I had up to 400 bass up to 6 lbs. in a .62 acre pond with no issues. Keep in mind I was overflowing my trout pond water into this 0.6 ac bass pond 24/7. "I had up to 500 lbs. of trout in that 0.10 acre trout pond that received 45 gpm of water 24/7. This overflow water ran into the 0.6 ac bass pond. Cody note - this bass pond was essentially a flow through system similar to a hatchery raceway which allows higher carrying capacities.
Cecils LMB growing details From this thread - see page 2
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=375958&page=1
