Also need to take into account, the res had dropped 35ft from it's peak in 1994 when the LMB had exploded which is also when the SMB almost disappeared. From 2003 to 2017 you couldn't hardly find a LMB and the SMB came back and have prospered.
Now the lake is back up and the recruitment of LMB is showing up in extremely high numbers and I fully expect to see SMB numbers decline again just as they did after the influx in 1994 which by 2000 you couldn't hardly find a SMB.
We haul threadfin from Texas every year and most years there is some carryover that surprises everyone.