Quote Originally Posted by Mean Morone View Post
I saw a video showing the state putting out gill nets to sample the striper population. The guy said the state put 550,000 stripers in there year before last. That lake is huge and has plenty of bait in it(at least that's what I hear, ) so I think it could stand a few more fish in it. I remember that they did a study years ago and found out that the stripers use the entire lake(surprise! ). They said then that they would increase the number of stripers stocked per year. What happened to that plan? My local lake gets more hybrids than that stocked every year and is just a fraction of the size of Lake Cumberland.

The other thing, and yes I'm thinking outside the box, is that the bait in the lake may have changed some. I know Alewives are still the number one bait by volume, but with the lowering of the lake and the brush and grass developing on shore, I think gizzards and threadfins may have made a good comeback. Maybe stripers have changed their ways according to their bait preference. Now I've only fished Lake Cumberland for a little over 20 yrs. so I don't know how they acted when the majority of bait was gizzards and threadfins. Did they jump like crazy back then?
Scott he lake has exploded with threadfin the last several years. I have seen it where you felt like you could walk across their backs at times and make it to shore. I see Gizzards some but they are not that abundant like the threadfins and Alwive. I honestly think that is why the Spots have increased in ''AVERAGE'' size there the last few years. They are constantly gorging on threadfins. They puke in my boat often showing me their lunch...