Just over 1/4 acre, max depth is confirmed at 10 ft. I had my diffuser set in 2-3 ft of water. What I find strange is that what ever caused this only effected the HSB, Even some small 6_8" ones. One of the HSB was 22" and atleast 5 lbs. He would have been an impressive fish this summer, sad. I would have rather the CC not made it.
Perhaps at only 1/4th acre you chilled the water column and the hybrids are more temperature sensitive? I wonder where the white bass component of the hybrids come from? Perhaps they come from the south and are not adapted to chilled water temps? Or maybe they need more D.O. than the other fish?
My 1/10th acre trout pond got down to 32.5 F. from top to bottom, but fortunately the trout are adapted to that from evolving in streams and rivers that become chilled. It didn't even phase them.
Just a WAG and I may be totally off on that.