Smalma,
I wouldnt do it, Im more of a trout fan anyways.
The lake is entirely on my famly's property so I was wondering if it is still illegal to introduce exotic species if you own the lake?
The Large Mouth were introduced back in the 1930's or so and at that time the lake only had cutts, catfish and chub.
Interesting story how the bass came to be. When my grandpa and his brothers were kids they dipped shiners AKA chubs out of the lake by the bucket full's and sold them to the bass anglers in the area for live bait. Some other kids, their compitition, wanted the entire market and decided to dump some bass in the lake to take care of the shiners. Within a couple of years there were no more shiners and my gandpa and his brothers were out of buisness.
Now nearly 70 years later there are still some wild cutts in the lake. Over the years my family has stocked it with Kamloops, rainbows, triploids and such. I have caught many hybrids over the years but cutts have still hung on. Now the lake only has triploids and hasnt had capible trout for five years or more. Havent caught any hybrids in a few years but I am seeing a few more cutts the last couple years.
I bet ya if they stopped stocking the lake all together and agressivly started harvesting the bass the Cutts would come back and take over agian.