Kenny - you say owner - "gains access to about 120lbs of full-on adult bass, adds them to his pond and a year later starts seeing dead LMB"
Are those dying LMB the sizes of LMB that were added?
So 120 lbs of adult LMB were added on top of an existing LMB population that had been historically unharvested or rarely harvested? Correct?
He pulls all 6-10" LMB but it's been very low numbers and has never purposely harvested a single large adult LMB.
Do the newly added LMB eat pellets?
They lived a full year and now in spring of 2025 are gradually dying in decent body condition?
Do any have eggs for the upcoming 2025 spawn?.
Lusk usually says adding adult fish to another pond is sometimes not a good thing. Adding a higher quantity of adults may make a not so good thing worse especially when the pond was at carrying capacity prior to when the new adults were added? A New environment and too many new stressors for the immigrants who now have to compete with resident established, adapted individuals in a capacity pond that did not endure harvest and transportation stressors?
