Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? Reworking and enlarging Pond

It will be difficult to grow both big BG and those size LMB in the pond without intensive management. A 5# LMB can eat and will target a 5" BG, and a 10# LMB can target and eat BG up to 7" or so. A 1/2# bg is 9" and a 3/4# BG is between 10 and 10.5" in length. Best thing to do to achieve your goals is to feed the BG like crazy and not bass fish very much for the first 3 years. Fin clip the LMB that you stock so you can somewhat keep track of the stockers vs. the offspring. 4 acres can support 200# of bass for fast growth, leave bass in there that are under 14" and over 21". Keep track of the weights/lengths of the LMB over 21" If you see the growth rate/weight gain slow down, take a few more out. That will tell you that the forage size that they need to continue to grow is getting thin. Once you catch the over 21" LMB a few times it will be progressively harder to catch them.