What made you think it was the catfish taking over??? My conclusion was when u had the coontail u got some heavy successful bass spawns then when u put in those stupid grass carp (like they did in my 60acre lake here in Fishers In) they got rid of all the habitat now you have all this exposed forage and all those recent bass and they eat up all their food and start to stunt out. The catfish don't help but if you had enough forage it wouldn't matter cause there would be plenty of food to go around, still think u should shock and remove bass.
