"Growth Rates" is certainly an oldie, but if you're interested, sending a
request is worth a try.
Travis Haas
Hazel Green, WI
At 10:06 PM 9/2/02 -0400, Wally wrote:
>Can anyone tell me, the average growth rates of Smallmouth Bass? I have seen
>Life History Reports of other species that say fish "x" will grow to 3 inches
>in its first year, 10 inches its second and so on, but I have not been
able to
>find out anything like this for Smallmouth. I have successfully raised one
>from a tiny fry less than a week old, that is now about 2.5" and I am
>wondering how quickly it will continue to grow. I do realize that it will not
>see winter, and this will make it grow quicker.
>
>Anyone have any ideas/input? Ever tried it? I discovered that bass fry are
>quite hard to raise and that they like to kill each other until you only have
>one dominate one left. The smallmouth fry have also grown much slower than
the
>largemouth fry which also seem to be far less agressive toward each other
than
>the smallmouth are.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Wally
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