Like gooey and greasy cheese curd appetizers to us, gobies and sculpins are an irresistibly unhealthy junk food item to smallmouths. Their invasive abundance provides smallmouths with infinite buffets along the lake bottom. Gobies simply feed and sustain smallmouth fisheries where populations, their sizes and body weights, have grown exponentially larger and wider. Invasive round gobies of the Great Lakes and native mottled and slimy sculpin on the inland lakes are making up a vast majority of smallmouths forage preference and food intake today where fish have become built like absolute units.   The invasive round goby invasion of the Great Lakes in the 1990’s shaped these already world-class fisheries forever. Their abundance and blanket of the lake bottom transformed what were once abundant pedestrian and average 2-to-3-pound fish into megalodon specimens now achieving state record sizes – and in some unicorn cases, world record. We are seeing the positive effects of gobies and their benefit to ecosystems throughout Lake Michigan where Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin anglers are routinely running into 7 to 8-pound class fish in spring tournaments. Meanwhile f