Yes all fish are not the same - they adapt or die. Some will be better at catching many small prey and others will eat fewer but bigger meals and still others will do some of both. Your selection of goals and how to achieve them have to account for many variables some of which are difficult to control/plan for. The most important one (one often noted in studies as problematical) for most waters is lack of food.

Here is one point I noted from the text:

"We acknowledge that our results have limitations (e.g., low sample sizes for crappie, smallmouth bass, and rock bass; northern pike observations from only two lakes; and a lack of information on prey fish community size structure available in the ecosystem) and, therefore, stress that these are “realized” prey lengths, not “preferred” prey lengths."

That is a big if to be missing on.

It could be that those systems were out of balance (which is common) and that there were not many big BG to eat.

Last edited by ewest; 12/07/18 04:46 PM.