Might I ask what info makes it sound like it was ballancing out?
I understand that initially i was all doom and gloom, and after the creel data showed some growing bass it is more optimistic...is that the biggest indicator? the growing bass?
I guess what confuses me now is the existence of the pike. even if they were always there, they never were in numbers like this. If i deplete the bass population, won't it just give the pike room to grow? aren't the pike going to continue to devour the bass minnows? aren't the bass the biggest control on the pike?
I guess what i am concerned about is coming back in 3 years and saying, ok, revered pond-masters, help me out with this...solved the skinny bass problem, but now i just have thousands of tiny, angry, starving pike and one 12 lb bass, and the crappie packed up their bags and left for the chain of lakes 2 years ago.
