I have 10+ LMB in my 6 acre pond that love to eat any size BCP that they can find. I used to catch quite a few but now can maybe get one in an hour of fishing for them. My neighbors have the same issue. To many LMB and way to many BG have stopped even LMB from pulling off a spawn. Have watched the BG raid LMB nests for several years.
Those dang LMB are going to town on your BCP. Though you wanted a BCP pond ... you have an absolutely awesome LMB pond that most everyone would be envious of.
To maintain the LMB fishery, you need recruits. Eventually your big old LMB will die. Some kind of ladder at 1 female per acre-year in the 1 to 2 lb range could help to buffer you for this transition.
