Lake Eufaula Fishing: Stripe are eating crappie?NOPE

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	Name:	Lee Gantt -
	Subject:	Stripe are eating crappie?NOPE
	Date:	4/12/2009 9:52:59 PM

This is a ludacris question and the cause of many beliefs about striped bass that are not true. I have personally done surveys and research with biologists from alabama power on the tallapoosa river all the way from montgomery to the shoals in lake martin only to conclude that gizzard shad make up over ninety percent of a stripers diet period. It is true that stripers are a preditory fish and they do eat crappie, bass, bream, crawfish, etc. but let me say again that their main diet consist of shad. At different times of the year their diet shifts from gizzard shad to threadfin shad due to water tempature and metabolic rates but they bare no influence on the population of the other game fish in lake martin of any other lake in the state for that matter. It is important that these rumors are cleared up and people understand that the main reason that stripers are stocked in lake martin is to control the shad population. Without stripers in these waters the baitfish population would be all out of whack and the overall populations would suffer as well.