Originally Posted By: CJBS2003
I think even in a 100 acre lake, the LMB will dominate the SMB and there will be little to no recruitment of SMB particularly in a Texas environment. Even lakes of 200, 1000 or more acres, LMB seem to dominate the fishery most of the time. Every now and again you do find a lake where the smallie dominates though, but they always seem to be fed by a creek that has a healthy smallie population to begin with, the water stays cooler and there is a cobble/bedrock bottom to much of the lake.


Thats very true. Here in Washington there are two lakes about 1/8 of a mile apart. One is creek fed and super deep with strong runs of cutthroat trout and a HUGE perch population and you can get some nice smallies out of there, but oddly enough you'd be hard pressed to catch a largemouth. The other lake which is mainly spring fed there are 8+lb bass in there and a very limited smallmouth population.

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