Very interesting. Had never heard of that.
It may be what happening in my main pond.
I'm going to let it go one more year and see how it plays out.
My forage stocking was in March 2013 and the LMB and CC went in later that September.
I did add 100 f1 LMB fingerlings (about 4") last fall but hard to tell if any survived predation. My hope was the BG forage was so plentiful a few of the new LMB would make it.
My back up plan is if I still see no improvement by next year I can use my sediment pond as a grow out pond for some more LMB fingerlings, raise them to a size to escape predation, then catch and transfer to the main pond. Might get some HSB at same time. Sediment pond currently has 10 adult and some stocked fingerling RES that hopefully will spawn and fill it with RES recruitments this year. Plus whatever BG have swam upstream during high water (I observed 3 2-3" BG so am sure more made it) will be spawning size by fall. No predators in the sediment pond so it should work good to grow out fingerling LMB.
Last edited by snrub; 05/17/17 10:59 AM.
