Have you ever wondered?

  Each year we stock fish in our lake to keep it a premier fishing lake. After last Saturday's stocking of 2200 Cat and 3300 Walleye (plus the free ones) I got to thinking about the numbers. For the sake of argument let's say 80% survive to grow out of the stocking, which should be a low number considering the size of the fish stocked. That means over 2,600 Walleye and almost 1800 Cat should grow to keepable size.
  Fran and I fish a lot for cat and when we catch them almost without exception they are five to thirteen pound monsters. Why do we almost never catch the two pound eating size? I can go to Pierce Lake or Bauman and catch plenty in the good eating size range but not here. Why? Now consider the Walleye that are stocked each year. From this year's stocking there should be enough Walleye to make them an easy catch and this is cumulative from prior years as well. Sure, all of us catch some Walleye but are 2,500 of them taken each year to keep the population stagnant? Nope. Our lake should be full of Walleye. We don't see them floating all over the surface dead nor do we see that with Cat. I don't get it.
Ken