Name:   Aardvark - Subject:   Striper pattern? Date:   6/6/2016 8:58:21 PM

Perhaps the maximum depths of the lakes has something to do with stocking rates.  Lanier had trout at one time before Georgia switched to stripers.  Trout require even colder water than stripers, so perhaps the oxygen levels are nominal at greater depths than at Martin.  I do know that Martin has trouble at times supporting trophy stripers due to oxygen levels in the summer at the depth range where stripers find their preferred temperatures.  This is why gulf strain stripers are stocked, and why the culling limits are in place.  If there is not enough useful striper habitat due to deep water oxygen levels, then maybe the biologists believe that Martin can only support a stocking rate of three per acre every year instead of the ten plus typical of Lanier.  Personally, I would like to see enough stripers stocked to come chow down on all of the shad blissfully swimming around in front of our place every fall.