Striper's are not a native fish, but is Norris a native lake?

Stripers do effect the balance of the lake & if Stripers were not in the lake, we'd have an over-population of large Gizzard Shad. Shad that made it to a size that the LM & SM can't eat anymore would take over the lake.

"As I understand it, I think that is the problem with our spotted bass population." 100 percent correct! Those spots need to be removed.

"How many big smallmouth do you catch when are stripper fishing?" I was catching them on Norris but I've almost stopped fishing Norris at this point. There's still a good crop of SM there. Norris will never be a good LM lake.

"The fish kill of '03 may have been nature rebalancing the situation at hand? I know it mainly effected the big stripers. Why?" The Stripers were stranded in a low oxygen area that they could not leave due to warm water temps above 35 feet.

"We don't need to fight amongst ourselves because we need to stick together." Correct again! Count me in.

"These are my two cents even though the may only be worth that amount."
Worth at least two bucks

Nice post!