Quote Originally Posted by Bass_King2007 View Post
the state also stocks alot more stripers in cland that they did in the 60's stripers are a eating machine and eat their body weight and maybe more daily... its not that the stripers are eating the brownies, its that they are competition for food against the bass in cland.. laurel and dale the browns and largemouth are the top on the food chain and have no competition..
Not sure where you got this information from, but the best I can tell they stock less now than they did in the 60's. According to what I have been able to find they stocked 10 per acre up until the 80's when they slowed it down to 7 per acre. Unless I have wrong information.

As for a reason, IMO it is mostly based on lake levels. There is a ton of forage in C-Land so I doubt that is the reason. I think a slot limit would help, but I don't think you will ever see Cumberland and Laurel be what Dale Hollow is. They have tried taking brood stock from Dale and using the off-spring at Cumberland and Laurel and that didn't really seem to have a huge effect. Some lakes are just better habitat for fish than others and Dale seems to have some missing ingredient that the other two are missing.