I have been trying to wrap my head around these numbers and it is a real eye opener, at least to me. Say you put only one 5 pound bass in a 1/4 acre pond. That pond needs to produce like a thousand 3 to 5 inch BG a year just for that one fish! Then you figure that big bass will also have the gap to be taking out your adult BGs along the way; making it even harder to keep up the BG population. Maybe that's one of the big reasons folks say you can't produce big bass in a small BOW. Seems there is no way a small pond can produce enough forage to feed big bass so constant supplemental stocking of large forage would be required.

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