We have a customer who wants us to perform a complete pond restoration on an 8 acre pond with an underperforming fishery. This project will take several years to complete, but we want to take you through the entire process to show you how we transform a pond into a...
Stocking hybrid bass and bluegill in a pond is a great way to improve the long-term success of a fishery, but it should not be done without some form of baseline population analysis. This is why we always recommend a population sampling via electrofishing prior to any...
How many pounds a year will a largemouth bass gain? Or what is the ideal largemouth bass growth rate in a healthy pond? Most of the research says that largemouth bass typically grow anywhere from 0.5 lbs to 2 lbs a year, depending on prey availability and other...
Having a pond full of largemouth bass is usually good thing, but what if all those bass are relatively small and never get larger than 3-4 pounds? There are many reasons why bass populations become stunted over time and stop growing. It could be a result of the lack...
Creating a trophy largemouth bass fishery requires a comprehensive, well-rounded approach where all factors that affect the growth of the bass population are considered. There are many factors that might contribute to a stunted largemouth bass population in a pond....
In April 2021, TLC Perfect Pond conducted a comprehensive evaluation of a large community pond that is approximately 880 acres with about 700 acres of fishable area. We completed an electrofishing survey to analyze the overall fish population, we tested the physical...
