Stocking LMB is not really how you get a good LMB fishery. Recruitment is not an issue at 95% of our Texas lakes.

Habitat and forage are way more important than backing up a truck and dumping 170k one inch baby bass into a lake... those little jokers having a 0.05% survival rate to adulthood. You are really just trying to make a long play on influencing genetics. You are not going to be catching those fish and experience better fishing because there are now just so many more bass in the lake that were stocked... does not work that way.

Adding stripers or anything with stripes on it is just more pressure on forage. Now they do not tend to feed in the same places and in the same manner as the bass do and add a fun fishery, points taken, but if 10lb lmb is what you want to see more of, I would suggest adding striped fish is not a step toward that, I would argue its a step away from that.

I would also add gar are not eating healthy LMB. Its just not a thing. A large stomach content survey was done on Texoma on Alligator gar. 138 gar stomachs were pumped and not a one had a LMB or SMB in it. Gizzard shad, common carp, river carpsucker and buffalo made up 74% of what they found. The only game fish found were channel cats, white bass and striper and those were very rare, in total accounting for less than 2% of what they found in those fish. Matter of fact the Alligator gar ate more long nose gar than they ate game fish. How do you like that?

So shooting gar with arrows, not going to improve fishing unless you like carp and buffalo.

I disagree to a great extent. Having caught and surveyed myself the contents of large gars stomachs the majority had white bass, a lot of them. I have found brim, small bass and small carp. Saying a large predator won't eat certain fish varieties is junk science. They are only trying to get the hate off of gar for some reason. In my opinion removing carp would greatly improve any ecosystem.