Went fishing in a half-acre farm pond this past weekend. Within 3 hours I had landed 14 bass using a 7 inch plastic worm. All the bass were 10 - 15 inches though. My gut reaction is that this farm pond has too many bass in it, and that they will all stay around that size because of competition for food. Do you think this is the case? If so, how many do I pull out to allow for a larger avg. size of bass?
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Went fishing in a half-acre farm pond this past weekend. Within 3 hours I had landed 14 bass using a 7 inch plastic worm. All
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Sounds like that could be the case, but if that was the only time you have fished that pond, I wouldn't take drastic action now. A half-acre pond is not so large that you can remove a lot of fish and see an appreciable difference soon. I would just work on removing a few a week, but still keeping accurate notes on how many you catch over a specified time period. You should be able to contact your local department of conservation and/or natural resources to get more information on what they recommend given the size of the pond and the number of recorded fish you have pulled out during several outings.
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