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Sign onto Facebook and look up Tufts Lab. Or simply use this link : I found this quite interesting and informative. You will see video captured of Gobies eating baby bass at a nest. This can be a big issue. It may be great for larger bass to eat the Gobies and get nice and big ... but the threat they pose on the success of the reproduction of the bass population may be a serious problem. In time I believe there could be potential for the opening of Bass season to be delayed so that the guards of the nests are not disturbed (as that video shows).

Earlier this year, I was carp fishing along a quiet shore of Hammy Harbour. All of a sudden, around the wooded shoreline comes a dozen, then a hundred, then thousands of cormorants. I'd had never seen such a big migration of the birds, and they all began landing and settling down right in front of me. After I got over the spectacle before me, I got up, moved towards the water and waved my net over my head frantically. This seemed to spook a few, then more, and then in unison, thousands of them took off like they were never there. Quite something to witness.

David, that is a great looking fish! I would have been smiling too! As I was growing up we kept waiting for some one in Florida to break the largemouth record, LOL it still could happen?

This is a fact. It may not be necessary but if I'm largie fishing up shallow(<4') and tight to the boat(flipping docks, wood, etc.), I'll put my graphs on standby. That turns off two transducers from clicking away.

You never know but I doubt it. I'm far from a biologist, but I'd have to guess that with lakes the size of our Great Lakes, the change cycles would be very very long. I could see small lakes being much more fragile whereas when they experience minor fluctuations in baitfish populations or water quality issues, the overall health of the lake suffers more quickly. Pure speculation on my part. The other thing we'd have to know is the spawn rates of gobies. I read they are very prolific reproducers so could smallies really eat them into a decline? But the other real beauty of the Great lakes is the water flow...no one lake is a stand alone segment. This has to aid to the collective health of the lakes. Maybe?