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Originally Posted by GaryF
Stocking bass is unrealistic due to our climate and how slowly they grow. Here are 2 good reads on the LM bass,
and the growth rate chart of LM in a hot climate,
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Smallmouth Bass would the only bass that could survive in Alberta. Largies wouldn't.
The biggest thing would be to have them establish successful spawning areas, and get sufficient recruitment. That would be reducing predation from pike and walleye for a while and stocking smallies heavily for a number of years. That is the only way we can establish a viable population IMHO.
That being said...given the shear panic of some to simply change the put and take regulations to 1 over 20 inches...the fight to implement changes on a big lake like say Newell...would be insurmountable.
While I voted in favor of such a fishing...if the question was is it easy to do...or even possible IMHO...I would say no.