Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Evaluating New Pond and New Fish

My personal opinion is that there was a hole in what the LMB wanted to or could eat optimally on a specific forage size was the reason for the lower RW vs the doldrums of summer water temps. Still kind of surprised it occurred with what I was seeing in the pond visually on the numbers of small TP, but RW drop combined with a fish having a thick back/tail with an empty stomach is pretty telling.

One other thing that surprised me was that nearly a month later 9.23 to 10.19 I measured two fish with almost identical 10" length. The fish yesterday had an avg growth per day of 1.47mm per day from stocking which is the slowest growth rate I have seen to date on the fish I've tested. This is still within range of Bill Cody's Trophy Bass Concepts post. I get there is some variation in growth rates but what I thought I was going out to test for was 11-12" fish. Hope to know more this afternoon when we head to the property. Even one more fish would provide a lot of additional detail on how the fish are doing in the pond.

My initial impression is that the fall forage bump turned emergency-fall forage bump was the right call.