07-17-2010, 03:54 PM
Smallies would adjust. The smallmouth bass is a very adaptable critter. They range from the great white north and down into the deep south. The key is forage and nutrients. Strawberry has both. Jordanelle for example had great nutrients for its first 15 years and ample forage. Because the plant life is now dying out the perch, chubs, and little troutski's aren't doing very well.
I would love to see Smallies in Strawberry. Just to watch them adapt to a fertile body of water would be cool. They mix well rainbows and cutthroats in other bodies of water why not the Berry. Mayfly hatches, crawdads, and chubs will give the smallies feed year round so it is doubtful they would starve. I say give them a tryout, legally.
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I would love to see Smallies in Strawberry. Just to watch them adapt to a fertile body of water would be cool. They mix well rainbows and cutthroats in other bodies of water why not the Berry. Mayfly hatches, crawdads, and chubs will give the smallies feed year round so it is doubtful they would starve. I say give them a tryout, legally.
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