Your right hogmonster, if the lake had vegetation there would be a stronger recruiment of young bass. Almost all of our pits in southern indiana have gizzard shad, but they also have grass and you still have pretty good numbers of bass and panfish in alot of the lakes. I've noticed in lakes without shad that have grass, you get HUGE numbers of bass and panfish but if there not managed correctly youll get a bunch of stunted fish that wont grow and you might have a handful of big bass that by chance got big enough to eat the small bass and panfish. Its all about managing each lake and situation right and i think west boggs is being managed the best it can be for the time being. It doesnt surprise me at all that with the gizzard shad and absense of grass your gettin huge bass but no young fish are making it, it really explains why it was such a top notch fishery before the shad, since there still wasnt any grass we probably got the perfect equation for numbers of healthy bass