Wow. I see a doctoral dissertation here! Wish I were a numbers person, but then that's why I am a photographer. We can deduce that O.H. Ivey is a better habitat for Sharelunkers per-stock-count then? Someone said something earlier about "sharelunker fry stock" - is that a real stocking subcategory? If yes, then how many of those did O.H.I. get? The plot thickens.

There are already quite a few dissertations on the topic.

O.H. Ivey didn't start getting Sharelunker fry until 2010. The sharelunkers are sprinkled in throughout the state into reservoirs that have produced Sharelunkers & are separated in the stocking numbers under the category "Bass, Sharelunker Largemouth."

See here for stocking records by water body. I'm pretty sure it is the same page you visited before kicking off this thread.

Found it, just a zero (as in none) for Ray Roberts. Oh yeah, 52,789 at Fork in the last five years. And 42,207 at O.H.I. Hmmmm ....

One of the primary aspects of the ShareLunker program is to put more fingerlings in the water bodies that already have been shown they are capable to produce them. So for the most part, the fingerlings go back to the lake where Momma lives.

In the quantities stocked, which is a fraction of the numbers of the Florida strain bass stocked into any lake, the chances of any real number of SL fry making it to adulthood are slim.

I recall one TPWD employee referring to the current stocking of SL fry as being more of a PR project than a serious attempt to have the SL become the dominant strain in any one lake. If TPWD rotated the SL stockings, and put more SL fish in any one lake each year, rather than a few fish in numerous lakes, the chances of the SL genetics influencing the overall size of bass in those lakes would increase.

Mick,
Thanks for your dogged efforts! I will be running the TPWD response in it's entirety on my site - this evening. It's HUGE!

If anyone's interested in looking, here is the reply Mick got from TPWD - http://texasflycaster.com/stocking-largemouth-bass-in-texas-the-scoop/. Makes for some good holiday reading - for conventional and fly fishers.