Originally Posted by
kwin
Lack of forage for LMB/SB at Silverwood?
Surely you jest.
Silverwood is LOADED with food for LMB/SB. Silversides, hitch, blackfish, tule perch, small stripers/lmb/bluegill/crappie, bigscale logperch, sculpin and gobies. Throw in the largest trout allotment in SoCal (thank DWR) and forage is absolutely not lacking at Silverwood. Anglers freak out about shad because that is what they read about/see on TV and are largely unaware of the other forage options available. I doubt ALL of the threadfin have been wiped out and there has recently been the first documentation of American Shad in the lake too (3 of them). They were 18-19" and too big to be eaten by anything that swims in the lake, but with the amount of current generated, it is plausible they could spawn. LMB and SB certainly are not starving to death.
We shocked the lake this week and the abundance of forage options mentioned were clear and present with the most 3-6" SB I have seen in a long while.