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Originally Posted by horsetrader
Is there not lakes or ponds that they are stocking every year now with trout due to no reproduction and winter kill?
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They are not large enough to sustain enough bass for harvest...put and take bass lakes have not been practical anywhere's else except the deep south USA where the water is warm and green with algae.
You would have to stock them sparse...and not allow any harvest...they would be ultra hard to catch...and as such limited in value for 99% of the fishermen. Where now the put and take horde get say 9000 trout...maybe 500 bass would go in. They will not be able to breed successfully under that pressure...so it would not be a viable fishery.
One option if people just want a change to see one would be to stock bass of a large enough size to escape some predation. I agree with another poster...we would have to switch over from trout and/or walleye...and that would be expensive and incur the wrath of the put and take harvesters.