JasonD - Thank you for posting the growth progress of your pond after it was renovated. The information is going to be very useful to members of the PB Forum. So far you have done a very good job of maintaining abunant forage foods in your pond. The growth of your LMB are showing your diligent fish management efforts.
Thanks for the positive words
I feel like my forage and predator stocking plan was unconventional and not recommended. I’ve been told by more than one person on here that what I’ve done won’t work. On the other hand I’ve had a few of the good guys stick with me. There may end up being long term problems but for now everything has worked out.
One thing I have been thinking about, I fish my pond a lot, I have good RW data, I cull some under achievers and YOY. I’m going to guess that 95% of the people reading this don’t get data as often as I do and may assume or think their fish aren’t growing at the same rate, whereas that may or may not be true.
Maybe at some point I can get average fish weights for this same time period instead of just the extreme outliers.
On another note I caught a 20” - 4.83# HSB today, it looked extremely healthy.
