We can't grow "Texas-sized" LMB here in Kansas.

However, I am hopeful that we also cannot grow Texas-sized gizzard shad.

You do have a mature lake with large LMB. IF you have gizzard shad now, and no outside fisherman recently to introduce GSD, then I suspect you have had gizzard shad for quite some time. Your LMB may have been controlling them for a long time, and they may even be the preferred food of your largest bass.

(Of course, I am a "glass 1/2 full" kind of guy.)


Here is a link to an article (abstract) about the difficulties that GSD populations face in Kansas Reservoirs

Gizzard Shad in Kansas Reservoirs

I think your lake almost certainly has more large LMB/acre than the large state reservoirs.