Catfish ate all the bass!

[66KingFisher]

Ok, I gotta get some opinions on this......I met with a guy this afternoon to talk about doing some custom airbrush work on his motorcycle, and his home ended up being across the street from a nice looking neighborhood pond of about 5 acres or so in size, that i've had my eye on for awhile, so I mentioned that I enjoyed catch & release bassfishin and would it be ok if I walked the bank and wet a hook one evening? He proceeded to tell me that nobody was allowed to fish it without a neighborhood home owner present with them.....But, then he begins to tell me that there are NO bass left in this pond because the catfish took over and have reduced the bass population to nothing basicly. "There used to be some nice bass in there, but the cats ate'm all" He say's.

Naturally I think to myself "Whatever....Ya'll just don't know how to catch'm"...lol.....But after I left, I got to wondering...."Is that even possible"....could some big cats wipe out all the bass in a pond? Whats your take?

Personally, I think it was his way of saying "No, you can't fish it" without saying that....lol. But......if he wants me to do a custom paintjob for him he might have to let me have a go as part of the price.