Thanks guys and Bocomo I am starting to keep them bass out as well as you suggested. I already see small 4 inch bass in my pond so I know I have new ones coming up as well. It's hard to keep the 4 pound LMB tho and not throw him back, but I've come to the conclusion I am going to have to so I can get back on track. I do have a couple of areas that could use more cover I will be looking into that as well.

Anthropic your HSB will be great!! What I can say is this. When they were smaller like 15 inches I could catch them on beetle spins and small meps, but now nothing seems to work but the real deal bluegill. Either way when they hook up it's a BLAST!!!

RC

The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!