02-22-2013, 06:16 PM
[quote Gemcityslayer]I think you are kind of missing the boat though.
It comes down to whether you want a lake with lot's of smaller fish that grow fast and get to 3-4lbs quickly but never reach massive sizes....
Or a lake that has the food supply to support and grow massive specimens, up to 20lbs..[/quote]
NO, I don't think so. What I am saying is that you could potentially get more of those massive fish if you started over. Because then, you would give a whole much larger group of fish a headstart on a growing chub problem. And, I am saying the way things are now if you don't get control of that chub problem, the number of massive 20 pound fish will slowly dwindle down to the point that they are virtually non-existent. The more chubs you have in the system and the tighter that bottleneck will get and the fewer fish you will have get through it...
Again, the chubs are NOT going to go away. They will always be there...the food source to grow really large tigers will NOT go away. But, if you limit that prey source down, what you will do is open up more space in the bucket for trout and for larger trout.
Also, I don't think most lakes are managed for "massive specimens". I firmly believe that I could name you a whole slew of lakes that could pump out some "massive" specimens without chubs if they were managed that way.
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It comes down to whether you want a lake with lot's of smaller fish that grow fast and get to 3-4lbs quickly but never reach massive sizes....
Or a lake that has the food supply to support and grow massive specimens, up to 20lbs..[/quote]
NO, I don't think so. What I am saying is that you could potentially get more of those massive fish if you started over. Because then, you would give a whole much larger group of fish a headstart on a growing chub problem. And, I am saying the way things are now if you don't get control of that chub problem, the number of massive 20 pound fish will slowly dwindle down to the point that they are virtually non-existent. The more chubs you have in the system and the tighter that bottleneck will get and the fewer fish you will have get through it...
Again, the chubs are NOT going to go away. They will always be there...the food source to grow really large tigers will NOT go away. But, if you limit that prey source down, what you will do is open up more space in the bucket for trout and for larger trout.
Also, I don't think most lakes are managed for "massive specimens". I firmly believe that I could name you a whole slew of lakes that could pump out some "massive" specimens without chubs if they were managed that way.
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