Esshup and Greg make good points about being able to maintain enough forage for an abundant bass population. One does not realize how much forage it takes to keep a reproducing LMB population growing until they experience the eating rate of older 50-100 LMB/ac not counting their offspring. Keep in mind that LMB of several sizes greater than 10" start competing heavily against each other for forage foods depending on forage sizes and types available and that is often where many forage bases become limiting or get into "trouble" (shortages); various size classes of bass all surviving on a limited forage community that can not keep up with the increasing predatory pressure. LMB is sizable ponds can reproduce faster than anglers can remove them.
I concur with ewest about the blending results of F1 and northern genetics.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 02/12/13 09:19 PM.
