Pond Fishing- BIG Bass

[Chrisper4694]

Originally Posted by Eskimo

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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




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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oh if this is a public pond you better teach that bass how to not get caught! there's probably 100 guys looking at this pic rubbing their bellies right now haha. Thought it was private/well hidden at least.