This might help with the difference in opinions. The 3 inch plus was suggested because of sexual maturity. The biologist wanted to get those cnbg breeding as soon as possible. There are other predators in the lake. The two we have are catfish and crappie. Surprisingly nothing else has been caught besides lmb along with the crappie and catfish that would be considered a predator I was actually thinking along the lines of giving the brood stock a couple months and dump them in the lake and do it again a few times this year. Our water stays warm enough it would be possible to dump the last group in around November. If I could get a low number of 50k fish in each time I pull the plug that should be enough to out run what the lmb can eat, so some make it to sexual maturity and start to establish the population without extra help.
Thoughts?
