Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations What should I do next?

Hello, BB, welcome to PB.

That limited amount of growth does seem curiously small if there were plenty of small BG and if the bass have been in for a whole year. 60 does not sound like way too many bass.

1. When did you add the bass?
2. Were they bought commercially or transferred from another BOW?
3. What kind of growth did the CC have?
4. Can you tell us more about the BG population? Maybe they spawned but did not produce many offspring.

Feeding should help the CC directly and the LMB indirectly (by promoting better BG spawning). It would be very hard/expensive to establish a breeding population of FHM at this time; let's figure out how to tweak your permanent forage base if needed.