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Old 06-25-2015, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Jayhad View Post
This thinking is completely wrong and is not supported by science, a body of water can only support so much bio mass, if you add more fish the bio mass ceiling isn't raised it stays the same you just have more fish competing for the same amount of food as before... this causes fish to stunt growth..... you can have 100 fish at 5 grams or 1 fish at 500 grams,


*this is extremely simplistic but just showing the point
I'm not saying you're wrong, but the rainbows early in the ice season were noticeably larger than in prior years and all had small carp in their stomachs when cleaned.
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