Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations How am I doing?

I haven’t spent enough time fishing, but today I made sure to spend 35 minutes fishing w/ a 1” beetle spin.
My catch was;
4 Bluegill. (Two 7”, one 7.5” & one 8.5”)
6 Largemouth bass. (Three 7”, one seemingly deformed 13”, one healthy 13.5”, one 15.75”, one 16”)
Several bass threw the hook.
One fish snapped/cut my line.

Feeding at the dock shows a higher ratio of Bluegill.

I forgot my scale, but they all seemed a healthy weight except for the deformed bass.

If my ultimate goal is to 11” bluegill, do things seem on target? Should I fillet any bass over 17”?

Thanks,

:-)

Keep feeding the BG. Watch the population dynamics of the BG. If you start getting lots of 3-4 inch BG don't harvest LMB as they keep the food competition off of the large BG. LMB size alone does not determine the size of the prey they are eating you have to watch LMB condition as well. It will take a very large well conditioned LMB to eat an 8 inch BG.