Bust/Boom in Powell?

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Well I'm bored with winter and can't help but think to the warmer months and this is one thing that's been on my mind lately. As I was growing up lake powell was on a severe bust/boom cycle with the stripers and consequently everything else. Some of it was due to fluctuating water levels like any lake but most was that the stripers would gorge themselves on shad until there were no more and then die off. The shad would sieze the moment and rebound with the stripers following. Since they instituted the no limit rule on them though I haven't seen a hard core bust. I don't get down there as much as I'd like but I think I'm seeing more diverse generation sets ie 12", 16" and 22" instead of one generation totally dominating everything.
My question is if we're headed into another bust or have things change enough that we won't see that as much? Also how big are the bigguns going to be this year?
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