NEMASON,

If you're raising your bass in with your trout I can only assume your water temp is below optimum for largemouth bass for the trout to make it though the summer. Sounds to me like your bass may not grow especially fast in those water temps. At the same time slower growth will probably increase their lifespan. I have grown out largemouths to 3 or 4 pounds in 4 years but they seem to peak out at that size and some even show signs of senility with cataracts etc.

As far as the max amount of largemouth you can grow in a pond I have raised feed trained largemouths at 2000 lbs. per acre with no problems. But they were on pellets. I also had a good circulation of the pond with up to four diffusers (.62 acre pond).

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.