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Great growth so far. Be aware that since your current addition of 5 lbs of FHM have almost disappeared, the new LMB growth may soon "hit the wall" because not enough forage fish are currently present to keep them growing at the current pace. Hopefully our BG may be able to soon provide enough food to keep the bass moving toward the 2 & 3 pound mark. This is a common problem in new ponds. Remember - as those bass grow larger they will want abundant larger and larger food items. Their rapid growth will dramatically slow if they have to keep eating small FHM. A better option would have been to stock pellet trained LMB and you could have kept them growing like gang busters with high quality pellets and then later replaced smaller pellets with the 1" dia bass pellets that are available from Purina and Optimal brands. What is the length of the larger LMB in the picture??
Keep returning to this thread and update us about how your fishery is progressing to monitor the growth of your LMbass. Note that if you regularly / frequently catch them you will have to deal with hook smart fish when they are 3 lbs. Read about it in our Common Pond Q&A Archives about growing LMB.