I was reading some info from a hatchery recently that claimed that once a bass stunts it essentially stops growing even if it is later provided with a steady food source. That seemed a bit hard for me to believe. Then I started noticing in my pond - which was stunted Badly when I bought it two years ago and have been removing bass like crazy and adding forage - that the stunted bass tend to have empty bellies and the non stunted bass often have food in their stomach. My BG population is strong enough now that no bass should have an empty stomach. So do bass lose the ability to grow ? Or the desire to eat once they are stunted ?