Reviving an old thread, but today is the first day I've seen physical results from the electroshocking last year. I know we caught fewer LMB last year, but we also fished a lot less, so that wasn't a good gauge of the results.
I had lost a whole midsize class of CNBG, and I was hoping to drop the predator load and get things back to a more balanced state.
I watched my feeders throw this afternoon, and there were schools of 3-5" CNBG feeding. This was the size class I had lost, so this was a positive sign for sure and the first time in several years I have seen this. All the XXL CNBG were also there, but the next generation seemed to be back.
I loaded the feeder back up with a 500/600 mix, and everybody got fed.
I've already told Todd Overton, we'll do it again next Spring and see where we're at then. It was well worth the trauma.
