Quote Originally Posted by Panfish Nation View Post
Almost all species of sunfish are prolific breeders. They can easily over populate to well beyond what the local lake forage base can supply. This results in stunted fish. Quality of forage base also plays a role, and predation of course. From my understanding once a population gets too big, there is no way to reverse it unless you drain the pond or lake and start over. Instead you just have a repetitive cycle of stunted fish for that body of water.
the problem with that theory is there are not real large numbers of bluegill in either of the water bodies and neither have exceptional bluegill numbers, it seems to be more of a depth related issue for reasons unknown.
i know another lake that is also really deep and the bluegill there get large as well and a lake down from it on that same river system has the same issue and its shallow as well .
interesting for sure