Last year I had huge number of BG, mostly large, come to the feeders. Occasionally a bass would show up, but BG outnumbered them 50 to 1.

This year is almost the reverse. Lots of bass, few BG. Should I be alarmed?

Possibly relevant facts:

Four feeders on main lake.

Placed 19 tons of lime in lake last fall to bring up alkalinity & hardness.

Relatively clear, infertile water. Visibility usually around 3.5 to 4 feet.

Last year's fall electro survey showed many larger BG had fungus. Nobody seemed to know why or make suggestions as to what caused the issue and how it could be cured.

I now have six cormorants, last year only a couple.

Last fall stocked 100 1.25 - 2 lb northern feed trained bass. We'd seen that only a few original stocked LSL grew beyond 10 inches, so needed to get past the forage bottleneck. The NLMB are doing well, every one is fat, and we did catch a 20 inch LSL bass of around 4 lb last week as well.

Questions: 1) Do we have a shortage of BG? 2) If so, what can be done? I do have a 1/8 acre forage pond with CNBG in it which can be used to restock, but not sure that will be enough. 3) Would TP help by taking bass pressure off BG, or hurt by eating algae sanctuaries for yoy BG?

Your suggestions, thoughts, comments are welcome! Also, if you have a BOW around my area, around Marshall Tx, what are your BG doing?


Last edited by anthropic; 04/04/18 11:36 PM.
7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160