Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Headrick View Post
The fish explosion will be in the form of largemouths and panfish,have seen tons of fry on the lake and lots of small largemouth, the lake being high has helped them. Stripers are a put/take fish as they do not breed here, so unless they restock the population wont grow, and with the talk of closing down hatcherys, well, then the question is" is the striper days about over for Cumberland?
where have you seen all the fry? Most of the bass didn't get a chance to spawn . They went on the bed and the lake jumped 10 feet it held for one week they re-bedded and BAM up25 more feet. THEN swoosh sucked it out from under them. The only fry I have seen are shad fry and the gills are making hay with them...
As for the mass numbers of small stripers right now they are hurting the population TOO many competeing for the forage and the amount of oxygen that is available . SIX fish are harder to keep alive in a live well than one. SAME theory just on a larger scale...