Originally Posted by jpsdad
Yes. So even with 40% survival to 3" you could achieve the goal of 100,000 3" BG. Considering the biologist thought the >3" BG was what was in short supply, keep in mind that 1" to 3" BG are not being consumed by BG (but rather are being consumed by LMB up to about 18"). They can only eat so many so fast so the loss of your supplemental BG will only be the amount the <18" LMB were short relative to consuming ad libitum. It is possible that you will get more surviving than they recommended. You may want to talk with them about whether exceeding 100,000 3" BG per annum is something they would be concerned about. All things considered; I would prefer to have too many smaller BG than not enough 3" BG.

Unless you know something that I don't, how do you know that LMB <18: are eating the small BG? The OP said "Bass and bream stocked almost 4 yrs ago and bass not growing because CNBG apparently were eating up by an exiting small population of predators when the creek flooded into the lake before we bermed around it." There could be other predators that washed in besides the existing LMB population.

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