Originally posted by eddie_walker:
Out of curiousity, what is your pond record? Was this fish in the same pond as your trout? Is that a Florida, Northern or cross?
Eddie
Eddie,
For Nova pond the record LMB is 9.5 pounds. However, that fish was measured at just under 25 inches and weighed several days after it died and its stomach contents disappeared. Most reasonable people would agree that the same fish with a full stomach weighed right after catching would easily exceed 10 pounds. Using the relative weights from the 7 pound LMB as a ratio, the 9.5 pound bass would have exceeded 11 pounds.
For other ponds, the records are 8.5 pounds and 7 pounds, both of which were native LMB.
The 7 pound fish pictured was a cross between pure strain Florida bass from Danbury Fish Farms and my own native LMB. She was born, raised and caught in Nova pond, where the rainbows were stocked.
I fully expect you to exceed these fish, down the road a few years. If you approach pond management like you do other projects, records are going to tumble.
