I have a 1.5 Acer lake behind my house that I drained and restocked 3 years ago with largemouth and bluegill. I've lightly fished it about 5 times this year.much to my surprise I have a lot of 3-4.5 # bass. This morning I slip down there fishing with a weight less 10 inch worm I started catching warmouth. They where destroying my worm . I've caught a bunch of these things growing up in different fishing holes but I'm wondering if I should be worried about this or possibly take action.

Catch, fillet, eat

Those are good eating there my friend.

Any size to them?

Yep they be some gooduns in there. I was catching them on a 10 inch worm (or how ever long the ol monster zooms are )with a 5/0 worm hook ! I could see a bunch of small one too. I can't recall eating warmouth. I would imagine it would be about like a shell cracker.

taste like a big bluegill.

You talking bout warmouth or rock bass? Ive never seen a warmouth in anything but creeks and rivers.

You've got that backwards bradley. I've caught warmouth in several ponds but the only rock bass I've ever seen were in creeks.

I'd get out all of em I could Nate, those suckers are way to agressive and will eventually eat most of the food that everything else should be eating.

They are super aggressive. We used to catch them in Southeast Georgia around the Okefenokee swamp. Some would go over a pound and tasted really good.

Very aggressive fish...keep them fished hard, and don't throw any back, even if they're small. Never heard of them ruining a pond, but I've always operated on the assumption that something that aggressive and that prolific needs some heavy predation!

Thanks y'all. I believe I'll start trying to remove some hopefully catch enough for supper. 2 things I've noticed with warmouth is they show up where they are not stocked and they seemingly disappear after a while but I don't want them to ruin my lake in the meantime.

Caught a fat one in a private lake in North Shelby the other day; attacked a 6" Yum Dinger w/ a 5/0 hook.
Pretty fish; will post a pic once I figger out what to do about this Photobucket change

ive heard the eggs get attached to bird legs

That's the only thing I can figure

Just use Imgur instead. It's very simple to use. www.imgur.com

Look at the bright side. They are food for your bass. I've been catching them all over the South since the 60's. Never heard of them taking over anything but a frying pan. I think they would attack a q12" worm too. I've caught them on 9" ones.

Need some help catching some let me know. I would mind eating a few. And helping you thin out the herd.