Essup,
Your post was my original plan till I read the following from:

https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=565803#Post565803

Bob Lusk: When bluegill are overpopulated, culling helps. But, be sure bluegills are overcrowded. Here's a sure way to tell.
No bluegill except full grown adults exist. Yes
No baby bluegill, no baby bass, adult bass are underweight. Yes Bluegill outnumber bass 10-20 to one, and growth of all fish seems to have stopped. Yes Also, adult bluegill are underweight. TillI started feeding
If you have all those symptoms, cull bass and bluegill. Culling stimulates spawns, spawns stimulate growth.
The above describes my pond.

He later wrote:

There's just enough bass to eradicate young bluegill off the nest. Also, bluegill reproduction is hindered in overcrowded situations. Nature has a way to signal overcrowded fish to slow their reproduction. Overcrowded bluegill produce fewer eggs, and viability is affected because nutrition is affected. A consequence is also minimal reproduction of those intermediate size adult bass. Too many mouths, overall, between bluegill and bass, and the food chain stops mid-stream. Leave that fishery as is for several years, expect the same fish to lose weight, and the food chain to be prematurely eradicated each spring. The solution is this...cull bluegill in conjunction with improving the pond's ability to produce more fish. Increase production, reduce numbers, remaining fish compensate by spawning. New fish, a change of dynamics, improved food chain, and you see a big difference. Feeding, fertilization, and adjusting fish numbers is the best answer for this scenario.

It all seemed to make good sense to me. I have removed LMB till they are infrequent to catch. I have no LMB that can consume a 9" & above BG. When he is lucky a great blue heron does. Takes him a half hour to get it down. I thought the large # of large BG would eliminate most all the BG eggs, fry, & fingerlings before they had a chance to mature. I do have some mature Tilapia males but I am unsure if the pond has any females.

I know I do not have the BG population that the pond should have, missing are the 1-6" BG. iI found a publication about FL ponds & they said that you should expect to feed 2# per acre/ day. I have 3 acres & only can feed 2 # per day for the whole pond.

I know just enough about zoology, biology, ecology, wildlife population management to be dangerous. Seems like culling or no culling BG will get the pond balanced again. Which is the more expedient way?

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