Originally Posted By: Snipe
An acre of flooded timber pretty well covers the spawning habitat I'd guess.
I still have to go back to the basics..If the fish itself was not eaten, it will continue to grow at a rate that the available forage will support.
If summer water temp is not exceeding the comfort zone for BCP, then there is (I won't call it a problem just yet) an underlying issue present.
If you originally caught fish 12-14", something was present then, that isn't now. Conditions have changed.. find what changed or what's missing and why.


Snipe
Have heard the the original stockers grow real fast the first year or so then as they have offspring things slow as forage amount is adjusted due to increased amounts of new biomass.