I commend you for your HSB growth, as well as your fishing skills.

We first stocked 100, 4-6 inch HSB in the fall of 2003.
I rightly or wrongly recall that we first stocked about the same time?

With limited hot weather experience it is difficult for me take make survivability assumptions, but have yet to catch any over 3#’s.
We did have a LMB predation problem however, and not certain the numbers that survived.

Due to 7+ inches of rain in one day on new pond renovation dirt, our pond is muddy, so no 4 pounders to report this spring.