Siberianfred
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How could i fix this? Imo it's the rock bass that have a strangle hold on this pond bc I've only caught a couple crappie ever while the biggest fish I've caught there (other than carp) are by far rock bass.
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Fish have never been stocked and have been around for longer than I've lived in the area. I regularly fish in a pond the size of my house and caught an almost 3 pounder. Exciting topwater bite to say the least. How would I fix a situation like this then? Try to thin out some of the panfish? It sounds weird to me because pickerel are generally enemy #1 in my area but would they have a place thining this smaller fish or would they wreck havoc on the bass too?
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Almost every time I go fishing there I try throwing senkos or today I threw topwater for more than an hour with not a single sniff. I'm usually never skunked but at this pond I've never caught a bass bigger than 7 or 8 inches. This whole summer my friends and I have fished it and there's only been one bass bigger than the size I said.
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A local pond by me that's about an acre in a square shape has almost no bass bigger than really 6 inches. There's just about every species of bait fish (bluegill and rock bass in large numbers and perch and crappie in much smaller numbers) and carp that jump all over the pond, most likely all coming from the river very close by. The bottom is rocky with some weed patches and structure and seems to get semi deep although I can't really tell. The problem here is when fishing (most often fly fishing around the shore), there are tiny to medium bluegill, small to big rock bass, and the bass (3:1 smallmouth:largemouth) are all around 6 inches and just as big as the bait fish. It seems like the masses of bait fish that hide in the weeds around the shore should be amazing bait for big bass but as far as I know there's only been one 2 pound smallie my friend caught right as a rooster tail hit the surface. It just seems so confusing to me. Are there way too many bait fish and rock bass that compete with the little bass keeping them small (they almost always have fat stomachs even being so small) and how would one fix that? Thank you for your help.