Originally Posted by Jason D
Originally Posted by Sunil
Nice pictures!!

That little LMB does look healthy, so maybe it's a good sign of the presence of forage for fish his size, or he's taking feed.

I think a 2 lb SMB in 2 years is very, very good.

The 3 lb LMB in the picture (if that's the three pounder) looks to have great body shape, and I think that growth is really good, but maybe not off the charts, so to speak.

Thanks for the response.
My main reason for posting was
1. - those 7" bass are throwing me for a loop
2. - The overall growth on my Bass has slowed significantly since this time last year.
The SMB have had the growth I was expecting in year 2
The LMB, not so much, as on average they have gone from 14" - 1.75# in year 1 to 15.8" - 2.39# in year 2, I expected the avg. to be quite a bit more.

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Make a couple of these and put them in 24" to 36" deep water where you can observe them. Those are #2's or railroad ballast sized stones on that pallet. SMB spawn on them, I have't seen a LMB use it. If you do see a LMB on it, catch it - it will most likely be a male and taking it out of the pond will be a good thing.

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