What a tough job to have to do! LOL. Awesome batch of fish, bet those were tasty!

how did you guys get them to pose with their mouths open? maybe they were still in shock and thinking "wait these guys are actually going to keep us" and got stuck like that


no you have to do that once in a while to a pond or they'll be over populated and stunt their growth

I will volunteer my services for helping out,to thin out pond as well!!!

nice haul!!

God loves Grandpa....s

Yum,Yum, those look pretty tasty!!!!!!! Nice catch guys. Nothing like walking to your tank and cleaning it out a little bit. Hey stumpjumper14, thats what we need to do to mine.....

Believe me we left plenty behind. We seeded in 30 or so pound to pound and half crappie in there five years ago. I think that only six or seven have ever been caught out of there! They either died or they are not biting. There are four other ponds on his place all have fish. We both had a fun time catching a few.

God is watching you

LMB are real good eating fish. I'd like to be in on that deal.

To those who are bashing on someone for keeping and eating a few bass: consider these few things

Some of those bass look CLEARLY stunted...notice how some of them have a gigantic head compared to their body?

I have fished ponds before that were loaded with GROSSLY malnourished bass...head looked like it belonged on a 5 lb fish but the body looked like that of a skinny 3 lber. It's downright sickening when you catch ANY kind of fish like that.

It takes alot of management in private waters to maintain a healthy bass population. Just because you can still both sunfish and bass doesn't mean it's "just fine". If all the sunfish are big...some of the bass may not be able to catch that sunfish, much less fit it down it's throat. Basically what has to happen is the prey population has to be "available" (i.e. it can be eaten), with a size distribution such that every fish in the pond has something available to eat at all times of year.

How about if someone started railing on you for thinning out some of the plants in your garden if they were too crowded? Is it necessary to thin them? Sometimes. Is it any of their business what you're doing in your garden? Absolutely not!

It's NOYDB what someone else does that's not only 100% legal but also occurred in a PRIVATE POND. Did it affect YOUR fishing at all? Absolutely not! Even if they were to run a seine through there and take every single bass out of there, it would only affect 0.000001% of this state's population: only them and those they allow to fish would be impacted. I doubt you fish it and if you're riding him like that, I doubt you ever will. Even if you DID fish it, unless you're paying him for the right to fish...shut up and just live with it. He doesn't HAVE to let you fish there. I don't know about where YOU'RE from, but where I'm from, we are grateful for access to private waters and respect the landowners' wishes. If they say there's not much in there and it's a well-built pond...we'll help stock it by transplanting fish from other ponds that are overstocked. If we don't like the landowners' rules...we just don't fish, simple as that.

So, with that said...get off your high fishing seat you "holier than thou because I catch fish that are 'superior' to other fish" bass thumpers.

if you worry about stunted fish...increase the forage bass
CPR

You can only do so much in a pond though. Be like 20 people living in a one BR apartment...eventually you're gonna run out of room.

It all comes down to the plankton...it can only be so thick in a pond...and that's what supports the little fish, which supports the big fish. You wipe out the plankton and other microorganisms, the system will eventually collapse. A pond (like any ecosystem) is a delicate balance (I know, sounds hippyish, but in this case, the hippies are right). Imagine trying to balance one of those Bill Dance porcupine fish attractors on a small stick...it can be done, but very difficult. Each spine of it represents a different factor in the pond (bass, plankton, baitfish, water clarity, etc.). Change just one of those spines a little bit, and in order to stay balanced, something else will have to give, which is going to in turn impact something else, etc. No matter WHAT you change in a pond, it's going to impact it in some form or another, and not everything will benefit.

God does not agree with your way of thinking

Look skinny to me....definately need some thinning. Enjoy the fish fry.

Unbelievable that some of yall bash them when you dont know squat about the situation. Yeah, more forage, that will work. Lets add more fish to an overpopulated pond. Great idea!!