Hey Guys! I thought I’d chime in again. The reason for stocking muskies is so dang many people keep white bass/wipers/walleye for dinner. When(if) Enders comes back up it will have lots of flooded vegetation. Those shad and carp will take off fast! This time we will be prepared If you remember when Calamus was first impounded it was a great Northern Pike and LMB fishery. As the reservoir aged the ideal habitat disappears(unless there’s drawdown and vegetation reappears) For along time Calamus didn’t see “severe?” drawdown so the habitat silted over. During this time the walleye, white bass and wipers took off along with the carp. Now Calamus anglers are not known for “Selective Harvest” and again the predator base was too weak to over come the exploding carp population after a few years. Now with the muskies it will take awhile but hopefully we will see a decline in carp numbers. It takes just a long, long time and continuous stocking and hopefully most of those 40″ fish will be released back in safely. Cause and Effect results are hard to see. But as in the ever-lasting war against white perch at Branched Oak we are starting to see small changes.

Take Care and Screaming drags!!ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz!!

Andrew S.

Hey guys! I was asked to come over here and make a comment.
I love wipers! They are an apex predator. Currently at Sherman I don’t think they are really required right now. You can have to many predotors in a lake as we call it a triple threat! Sherman has a great walleye base, some Northerns, white bass, Flatheads, and is one of the best crappie fisheries for the State. The shad forage base is strong-but not out of control like other bodies of water. Now once the predator base at Sherman starts to fade, most likely the Northern Pike first and “if” the shad start gain over the hump of the predators-then I’d be all for stocking wipers! But currently “If it’s not broke-don’t fix it”

Later Folks!
Andrew S.