Not at all surprised which LMB won the tilapia battle. Those smaller than 15" are lean for a reason. The TP took forage from them two ways. First, they took forage away from BG by intercepting the food chain at the primary level. Just like zebra mussels except that TP feed large bass. Second they grew too fast to be small bass food for long and so provide no meaningful forage for the small bass. They did not provide any meaningful forage for your BG either.

It was like you had two ponds ... one that starved small bass and one that exceptionally fed the large ones .... all wrapped into the same pond. TP are exceptionally good for large bass.

If I had any concern it would be recruitment of quality 15" bass and what I might do if I were you is find a source 1 year old forage raised 15" female F1s and stock them in the number I want recruited annually.

Last edited by jpsdad; 11/07/18 07:11 PM.

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