Originally Posted by anthropic
Good relative weights on those bass! From what I could see, nice bluegills, too.

Do you cull fish, particularly LMB? How about feeding?

We had been planning to start culling under performing LMB in the 10-12" range last summer, but then the winter kill happened. Our numbers are low enough we maybe stock a few more, to boost genetics.
We do feed, TH hanging feeder. I feed from about May thru Oct, once the water temp is over 50°. I feed a mix of Optimal BG and bass pellets (buy bag of each, hand mix), twice a day 1-2 second throws (1 to start then more once they are feeding well).

I had always hoped to catch a LMB of 5 lbs, so we're pretty excited to have shocked up that 4.88 lb bass. The boss caught a 10+" BG recently that was 1 lb even. We both loved that. She holds most of our pond records on fish size.