Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Is this LMB stunted or just young?

Ok Guys, I went out an fished for the first time a 2 acre NW Missouri pond this A. M. Pond is said to be 11 years old. Deployed 2 bait fish traps for 2 hours. Caught no bait fish. Caught 50 to 60 LMB all 6" to 10" long. All looked more like marathon runners instead of weight lifters. Clearly a severe case of no forage base and under harvest. Questions : are these bass all stunted and not candidates for relocation to other waters or are they just young ones? Will stunted fish "come out of it" if moved to a good forage situation or once a runt, always a runt? At what length of the fish do you decide it is stunted and should become racoon food?

You know...I have seen a couple of ponds that were full of stunted bass like what is described in the OP, but I never ever thought about the age of a given fish in a pond in terms of whether they could recover if given more forage.

Without knowing that though...we fished the seemingly endless supply of 10" bass down as aggressively as we could and added some BG and it worked to help bring things back into balance.