Jonmaly Loc: Porter Texas. 20 minutes north of Houston

In the last 3 months I have caught and released 30 to 40 bass in A 4 acre pond. Do you all think I have hooked or missed most of the fish in this pond? I have went out and purchased my first bass tackle box and Tackle. I have been using the same colored jig most of this time. So I bought other Bates because I think they are used to my jig. Here is my little setup

Golfish1951 Loc: North Carolina

Too many variables to answer that intelligently. Water input, chemicals, food supply, seasonal fluctuation, bottom composure, available spawning area, predators, and the list goes on but you see my point.

Happy Rooster Loc: Alabama

Where might one find this pond....

Pickle Loc: Duplin co, NC

I would cut a notch in the tail of all the bass I caught and released back into my pond so I could tell if he had been landed.

Ron620DVS Loc: Guntersville Alabama

There are many type of fishing tagsout there today. In our experience, plastic-tipped dart tags are excellent for bass tagging. These tags are applied on a bass using a stainless-steel applicator. The applicator is hollow and will hold one plastic dart...


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Jeremy Loc: America

Try a Tube bait if you haven't yet. I tie a high quality hook to high quality line (6lb for a pond) I get the tube all the way up above the hook. add 1 spilt shot. add 1/2 of nightcrawler worm with a worm threader. pull the tube bait down over the split shot and worm. make sure at least the point of hook is visible to YOU. cast that out into the pond. I always start with salt and pepper or pumpkin seed tube bait first in the smallest size available. Let me know if it works. This is my primary lure for small mouth bass. I have nailed Trout on it too. Channel cats as well. The real worm flavor is hard for most species to swim away from without biting it. I forgot I usually eat a small can of oysters too and dip the worms and tube bait in the juice in the can. Try to get a little of the juice trapped above the worm in the tube up high. salt is good to add as well every cast

Domtomac

We (3 of us) fish a county park pond that's about 2 acres every day at lunch break at work if it's not raining. We're in Ohio so that's about 90 days. We fish for bass using lures only & keep track like a little fishing tournament.
One guy caught 100 bass (he kept going when it turned cold cause he was determined to hit a 100!) I caught 53 & the third guy got 18.
Of course we'd release them all & I'm sure many were caught more than once!

Golfish1951 Loc: North Carolina

This is why I think MLF is a better representation than B.A.S.S. Every fish caught should count not just the biggest! Like your style guys. Somebody needs to help Mr 18!😂

Steve521 Loc: Kentucky

Mlf is not even close to B.A.S.S to watch on tv they got our stars of the sport out there targeting 1 to 2 pound fish it can’t compare to the elite series bringing in huge 5 fish limits for 4 days in a row and I’m sure all those great fishermen in mlf are questionable about the choice they made to leave

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

As stated above, too many variables (particularly vegetation, depth and bottom type) to really make anything like an accurate assessment. If you owned the pond, and truly wish to know EXACTLY what's in there, you could do what we have done on a couple of our ponds in Kansas. We had a guy from the county extension office electro-shock (not kill, STUN) and we paddled out on our little boats to count species and cull some idiot carp someone had POLLUTED our ponds with. (Mom's garden never looked so good !, Thanks, Squanto for teaching us white-eyes !)
I highly doubt you have "caught them all, at least once". That would be only about a dozen per acre, not exactly a crowd. We weren't going for an accurate survey on #'s, but scoping out WHAT was there, but I can say our 6acre pond had HUNDREDS of bass of all sizes. You also don't mention whether what you caught were of differing sizes, an indicator of the breeding health of the pond.

re: "do you think I have caught or missed all the bass in this pond ?"
In short.... YES, of course DUDE !! Read that again to yourself..... isn't that what fishing IS ??? Catching or Missing ? LOL !!

johnklang Loc: Oakhurst, CA

First post (reply) on this forum. From Central Cal. I heard of a biological study that was done I think in Iowa on a pond where biologists removed all fish, killed the lake and then restocked it with various sizes of tagged bass (I seem to recall 400) and typical pond critters. At some point in the future, they had pro bass fisherman fish it over summer and they caught every bass except two and some more than once. It was done before the internet so I have been unable to find it on-line but if it is true, it is a stunning indicator of what over fishing does to a body of water. Catch and release helps fish get caught more than once. If you look at old pictures of fisherman and their catches, that is also an indicator of what has happened to fisheries. Two fisherman holding a stringer of 10 bass unwittingly changed the future of that water by whatever exponential that equated to. Not saying never keep a fish, just do it with knowledge and aforethought.

Jonmaly Loc: Porter Texas. 20 minutes north of Houston

Well I don't keep any of my freshwater fish. Except for some catfish when I want fresh catfish. Someone stopped by while I was fishing and said they do really good there with catfish at sundown. 10 cast and and 10 catfish. I am going to fish catfish there soon. I won't keep those because you all know my lake is polluted. I also bought a tagging gun and tags. So now I am going to tag all my fish even in other bodies of water. Should be exciting! Thank you all for the good information and texting back your stories.