Ponds are good places to fish and if managed correctly, there are usually more fish per acre than is many lakes. They are great places to polish skills and gain an understanding their habits and habitat. Life in a pond is a complex, interlocking system of plants and animals. Plants grow and multiply, providing forage for small fish, crayfish and frogs. Largemouth bass eat the forage. Bass will feed on their progeny.
In any given pond three reasons why the quality of fishing desired is not forthcoming are it may contain the wrong kind of fish, the wrong size of fish, or the wrong number of fish.
Availability of food determines how well bass grow. If forage is available growth is rapid.
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There are limits in the numbers of fish a pond can produce and sustain. Many ponds have small bass with abundant panfish.
One problem in pond situations is that prey species may flourish to the point that they even compete for forage with the predator. An example would be a pond with very large bluegill and bass that remain small and are all about the same size.
In an effort to manage a bass pond many people feel the need to remove large numbers of panfish. If a pond has large numbers of small panfish they feed upon bass eggs and hurt the bass recruitment. What is left is a remnant population of large bass. Read morning at Don’s blog here….
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