I'm considering cutting down on feeding myself this year, but it's motivated by Shawn Banks' experiment - cutting off the feed for 8 weeks and allowing his apex predators [SMB/HSB] to hammer the forage [BG]. He witnessed a significant reduction in stunted BG population [his primary goal] and his predator fish didn't appear to drop WR. I have an dense GSH and BG population which could use some additional management than I can provide via angling, cast netting and trapping.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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