Great input. I'll change the breeding data before I turn it in. The sources from which I got the breeding info were generic sites.
The lake itself has a substrate of mainly organic sediment (mud). As for fertilization, would that exaggerate the algae and cyanobacteria problem? The lake looks pretty awful in the spring and summer.
The lake does have both bluegill and longear sunfish. The F&W dept did a study on it one year, and there is a 10 to 1 ratio of bluegill to longear sunfish.
In practice, are there any advantages to having multiple types of forage fish? I know hypothetically this would allow one baitfish to relieve the pressure from another baitfish once its populations got low. But does that really work?
