..... As your sunfish populations begin to explode, a large majority of your FHM fry fall victim to those very young sunfish and never even make it to 1/2". .....
.... those many numbers of small sunfish supporting that bass may eat literally thousands of FHM fry to support that 1 bass-for that day...
Snipe, I agree with this. But it makes me think about wbuffetjr's 3 to 4 lb trout (some maybe larger now). He has very good populations of minnows and also scuds ... all of which are small. Over one winter ... the trout actually doubled in length (which is an octuple of weight) ... UNDER ICE. Its just remarkable. He doesn't have thousands of BG intercepting his food chain and these small creatures are feeding his trout to respectable sizes. The growing season for the FHM is only about 4 months. You have to be impressed. His trout are not reproducing so even their own kind is unable to break the chain. I imagine those big trout are most interested in the largest of the FHM ... which could mean that the 1/2 inches are allowed to grow up most of the time. So it makes you wonder what is possible when there is a limited number of put and take predators ...
