Its common, I've taken some giants out of ponds no bigger around than an average home lot at most. If they are deep, if the nutrients and water quality are good, and there is good food base and not much pressure, you would be surprised what can come out of some little tiny "gems" of ponds in this end of the state. One of the biggest bass I ever saw came from a tiny little pond up located down in Richardson county, up in the nemaha river basin in an old limestone area cattle pasture. The pond seriously wasn't more than maybe 30' across at its widest point, with a little feeder stream and some old timber in it. Lots of stunted bluegill, and small bass. I thought that was all it had in it, until my grandfather took me there one night and after dark that place was completely different. I heard occasionally huge splashes in the dark as we snuck up to it, sounded like buckets of water being scooped up. We stayed a ways back from the pond and he had a big muske-class jitterbug on his rod with #40 braid line. I thought he was nuts. That thing jurgled maybe 10' across the surface of that lake after he cast it out, and then wham, he had one on that easily went #9 or so pounds. It was a full 26" end to end. I was impressed. It was Huge.
Its not a problem, just maybe a normal cycle for older ponds. Some of those should have some giants in them. Try it late a night some time in summer to find out. Lots of fun. Its one of my favorite summer fishing pasttimes ever since he showed me that, and I've been doing it 25 years since that fateful trip.
Jim
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