As far as Preditors go, what would be ideal would be to have Bass and Catfish at the top of the food chain and just cull their numbers....I think the picture is a flathead. I would rather have Blues and channels and tiger Bass. Right now I think and I say "THink" I am bass heavy. So I want to slot on limmit on the bas everything under 12 inches. The catfish are eating the feed but they have slowed down some what. I am slotting on thoes as well, everything under 13 inches with them, but this is Channels now not blues.
Some how my blues are not as big as my channels. Infact sort of worried about them to a degree, I think they are doing worse than the three. Hence more reason to stock better forage.
So when we talk about the Goals they are the same wheather its trophy Bass or trophy catfish. The key besides good forage base is keeping the number of mouths to feed down!!
I think for a 10 acre lake, 150 Channels and 150 blue cats and maybe about 500 Large mouth bass..
