george, if having to change lures is in the definition of hook shyness, I see it too. And my bass don't get a lot of fishing pressure wrt the BG and CC.

Mike:

By virtually all reports, HSB are not as effective a predator on BG as LMB are. Their mouths are smaller, they don't relate to structure (that BG can hide in) as well as LMB do, and there aren't thousands of little HSB around every Spring trying to eat hundreds of thousands of little BG.

HSB predation on BG approaches that of LMB in ponds with very little structure and plant cover.

HBG may well be a better choice with HSB for those reasons. IMHO, just as you can always add LMB later to take over from the HSB, you can stock adult BG later to replace the HBG (not quite as cleanly, as they may be some HBGxBG backcrosses, but IME BG reproduction will overwhelm the comparatively small numbers of offspring produced by HBG).

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