Thank you all for the info and responses. I have been removing largemouths for two years now. This spring is my 3rd. It’s just interesting to me when I see bass and bluegills sunning themselves together In the spring - bluegills that are small enough to be food - and then I catch one of the bass and it’s stunted and stomach is empty. I’m just thinking “dude you were 8 “
Away from a good lunch - why didn’t you eat it?” Honestly there were so many bass in these ponds that it’s hard to understand how a wiggle bluegill fry made it through. Yet in two years the pond went from no bluegills to a pretty hefty population. And there isn’t A lot of cover either. I’m beginning to fix that but up till now the ponds have a few weeds and that’s about it.