Originally Posted by TobyH
I am going to pick up my harvesting efforts. I know to have a 1lb+ BG pond that already has a ton of BG and LMB i need to: Cull all females caught, and all 14"+ LMB

My question is, beside trying to find sneaker males, which i think i got that and have spotted a couple. My though is, males at let's say 8.5" and less that have large elongated opercular flaps, should be culled as "less potential" males, is there any truth to that?

I would say no.

I know this is a HBG, but going by the opercular flap, would you consider this one to have "less potential"?

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FWIW, it's 12.5" and
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