The bottom line is you can only have so many pounds of fish in "X" amount of water.
SMB of some number-usually very few-will eat pellets unless they were well trained when young. LMB seem to learn much faster as wild fish than SMB do.
If the water temp is 75-85 on the surface and you have 120-140 days between 50 going up and hitting 50 on the way down, your problem is the correct size/type of forage in good to great numbers is just not there.
