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Originally Posted by John Mercier
The rock bass can be handled by a simple focus of tournament fishing on the one species. Doing that in theory would dramatically reduce their populations.
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While I am all for Rock Bass tournaments, the fact is,you could have a Rock Bass tournament every day and you wouldn't make a dent in the population! They are very much an invasive species that have taken over small-mouth and crayfish breeding ground in the lake. That is why people don't see crayfish around their docks anymore. It has nothing to do with water quality...Small-mouth and crayfish have been forced into deeper water. Heck I have been catching small mouth while trolling for salmon in over 100' of open water! This would have been very uncommon 20 years ago...
The rock bass population has been booming but will eventually taper off and decline to where they are just another species in the lake but you will never get rid of them...ever!
Dan