GooseDaBass Loc: South Dakota

I believe in the mid-late 60s is when the interstate was built, my buddies grandpa owns land along it bout ten miles from where we live, they paid him way back then to dig on his land along the interstate to use the gravel to build the roads, in the middle its 20 ft deep and it’s a decent size square pond nothin to special, so my question is , buddies grandpa paid to have 800 largemouth bass stocked into this pond apparently jn the early 70s, plus they’ve stocked their own, catfish, crappie, bluegill, apparantly carp , bullhead and tpday I cast ten times there cause we were out that direction and in those ten casts I caught one northern... kinda disappointed as I really am not a fan of pike lol.. but the question to be answered here with those 800 largemouth plus any that may have gotten tossed in there overtime from family/friends, also keeping in mind all the other species of fish, and it now being 2021, are there gonna be and donkey sized largemouths in this pond!?!😂😂

E.pa.al Loc: Martin's Creek

I would think if its like any body of water around here,somebody has been fishing it...with or without permission

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

If they have forage to eat, doesn’t freeze out and has plants to produce oxygen there could be big bass in there. That northern pike was eating something…and they are notoriously fast. It is not necessarily the biggest fish that eats, but the fastest.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Welcome to the Forum, GBD, The size of the fish will relate to the size of the water. The bigger the body of water, the bigger the fish will grow.

FourchonLa. Loc: Fourchon Louisiana, South Louisiana

It’s an older article but may give you some good information to help in catching bass if they’re in there. We call them barpits down here and they’re all along both sides of the interstates mainly around the overpasses.


https://www.bassmaster.com/tips/bass-pits

Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake

If your pond was stocked with Crappie and Bream it may be the fish are stunted in growth. Smaller ponds don't do well over time with Crappie in them. They tend to over populate add in bream and your pond may not have enough food in it to support that many fish. Also if it was stocked in the 70's silting in and other time related factors may have the pond's fish population mostly stunted or depleted all together.

Then again ten casts isn't a really good test for any body of water, maybe spend a little more time there to determine what's there. Put a worm under a cork toss it out if the fish nibble the worm without taking it you've probably got a stunted pond

GooseDaBass Loc: South Dakota

This pond is on a gated acreage private land.. right along the interstate so idk how many people would try sneaking on the land to fish a pond they aren’t even sure there’s fish in ha.. but I guess ya never know

GooseDaBass Loc: South Dakota

So today my buddies dad informed me that this pond had a drought about 30’uears ago where they could walk all the way across it and it would only be jus at their belly button for water level, and that’s in the middle where it’s 20 feet... so I’m gonna assume hardly anything lived through that...?

Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake

Sounds like you've found the problem that plus interstate runoff