I think one use for male bass is to use them in a pond such as a perch pond where you want the predator to stay smaller and focus its eating of fish that have the smaller size ranges. The male bass would be a tool for biasing the predation toward small fish.
Bill, that sounds like an excellent use for a population of all male LMB!
I can imagine that might be quite effective when someone wanted to create a trophy BG fishery. Once the BG became too big too eat for the male LMB, they would be safe to keep growing from large to "trophy" status. A horde of hungry, smaller LMB should be quite effective at keeping down the TOTAL BG population.
Only when the pond began pushing up against the total fish biomass limits would you need to cull some LMB for pond safety.
Follow up questions:
A.) When pellet feeding to target the "trophy" BG, I assume you can control which fish species gets the feed by using the correct pellet size? If you did manage to get a population that was 100% male, then there would be zero little bass competing with the BG for the feed.
B.) If you tried to create a "natural" trophy BG pond, would the biggest BG have enough forage available for them to "pig out" all year, or would the bass population have a significant overlap in consuming the preferred BG forage?
