Nate, you got a beautiful setting there. Lots of nice photos too. It's kind of slow here today, so I will ramble a bit here, and maybe over the next week you'll get a lot of good pro opinions of what to do.
I think that the number one suggestion you will get here is that you need to cull some LMB. Lots easier to remove LMB to start getting the forage back into shape, rather than anything else. With 1.5 acres, you can't hold to many pounds of bass, (I will go out on a limb here and say 75#?). You added probably its total carrying capacity with the new ones, it might have been good to remove the same amount that you added.
Are you saying that the water level fluctuates by as much as 4' thru the year? That would be another reason the forage fish struggle. Every time the water goes down, the big fish have a smorgasbord. What percentage of the surface area has habitat, man-made or otherwise? I think It's recommended that there is aprox. 25%.
My thought on adding natural vegetation is that it might be tough because of the water levels. It goes from floods to droughts in a lot of the areas you want cover.
Have you been keeping track of weights-v-lengths of all fish caught?
--- would you also say that it is 1.5 acres when full or at the low point?
Last edited by fish n chips; 05/19/13 02:05 PM.
