White Bass?

[crappiefisherman]

Do you think the huge amount of gar on the upper part of bull shoals might have anything to do with the shortage?Seems like they are everywhere?I am intrigued by the shad information, and it makes sense, but could the gars be eating all the shad or busting up the balls and scaring the small whites away?theory?I am not a biologist .also could possibly all the pleaesure craft,jet skis, ski boats etc, be keepin the fish away?There has been a marked increase of this in the k dock area{I bet if they went down today and looked at the area with the water gone they would think again.Ha ha.Also i wish the corp was more proud of that area, it is getting in a very very sad shape.Thank you for your support

[Wayne SW/MO]

Interesting thoughts. Gar are fish eaters and there are some in there big enough to eat some good size Whites, not to mention a lot of Shad.

Thread fin are said to prefer shallow water, so with the high water of late, possibly many moved into the brush thus putting them out of reach of open water fish like Whites.

I'm also curious about how successful their spawn has been.