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Wow - that's an awesome bass. According the the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commision length-weight charts, a 21" bass is over 5 pounds!
https://www.fish.state.pa.us/pafish/...s_overview.htm
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Originally Posted by Chrisper4694
long with a big head but looks a little thin in the back section. if that thing gets the right forage base it'll get really big!!! you should practice catch and eat with some of the runts (12-14") bass in there help the big ones out!
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That's pure conjecture. We don't know what the forage base is like and I wouldn't recommend he kill the bass.
Under some circumstances in private lakes that receive little or no harvest, biologists recommend harvesting small bass to free up the forage for the bigger bass. But that is not a private lake and we live in one of the most densely populated areas of the world. The bass don't need any help dying.
A pond with public access that has a good population of bass in NJ is just a temporary situation. Eventually it will be "discovered" and most of those bass will go home in a bucket. We have all seen it before.
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