Bill McKee wrote:



I do not think it is the feeding of the spots vs. LMB as much as the
spawning preferences. Lake Shasta is mostly a spotted bass fishery now.
The spots spawn deeper and on lakes that have a drawdown, the LMB are left
high and dry, and the spots suscessfuly spawn. And Shasta has major
drawdowns.

The spots aren't the big problem, the herring are. They eat small bass,
and in some of our Georgia lakes there is so little shallow cover that
the small largemouth have nowhere to hide, and almost none survive.
Herring are not native in these lakes.

Spots spawn deeper and their fry survive a little better. Also, spots
are more open water feeders and take better advantage of the open water
baitfish like herring.

The Georgia DNR has started stocking largemouth in one north GA lake -
the first big lake to ever be stocked, because of this problem.

Ronnie

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