Good pond management requires you to harvest fish. If the bass population has a large head in proportion to their body size then the are overpopulated. If most of your bluegill are small then you need to harvest them. I am not talking about just keeping a few bass and bluegill you need to aggressively thin down the crowd.
I went to a seminar once where a biologist from KDFW spoke about pond management. He repeatedly stressed that a pond is small so you have to manage it more aggressively than a lake impoundment. He said a pond that was 100% catch and release would be overpopulated in a short period...you need to catch and cook not catch and release.
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