Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Bass Keep Going Missing

Hi y'all im on a new account couldn't get into my old one. I have a 1.25 acre pond in glen rose tx and have put a couple rounds of adult bass into the pond over the last three years.

Long story short catch rates are still very low and on top of that the overall population of adult bass seems extremely low. I can count on two hands the bass I have located about the 1lb size in the pond over the last 6 months. Our electro survey last year also yielded disappointing results.

The couple bass I have are very healthy and over weight which seems to confirm the appearance of low numbers of bass.
Having now brought in hundreds of fingerlings and adults over the last 3 years I can't figure out where these fish have gone.
It appears I've lost quite a few in the process or they somehow are escaping my vision and lures consistantly over the months and years.

quite an unusual problem but one that I'd rather have than an pond overrun with bass.

For background my pond is very clear and I can see and fish about 80% all over the surface area of the pond so I get a very good idea of what's swimming around on a given day.

Thoughts, solutions anything anyone has got is welcome.

So, is this a correct LMB stocking summary?:

100 fingerling LMB
85 1-2 lb. LMB

So, approx. (185) LMB stocked in a 1.25 acre pond?

If you didn't have some kind of inherent mortality or predation by other factors, I would expect you'd see quite a few LMB.

I don't know if you said if you were feeding or not, but that does tend to congregate fish to where you may see more LMB.

I like the game camera idea!

Eagles & ospreys carry off their victims from my pond, back to their nest or away from the pond to a more secluded area.

Otters have not left much after their meal to show that they were there, except for the TGC that was about 25# to big to eat everything & to big to carry off.

I watched a great blue heron spend more than a half hour trying to get a 9" CNBG positioned so he could swallow it.
He finally did! He looked very proud of himself.

Might there be a two footed predator?

Try a seine survey.