Update:
As of May 20th apparently at least some of my smallies have been doing the horizontal mambo (or in the case of fish the side by side mambo.)
Today I observed at least a few hundred to several hundred (perhaps a few thousand) black fry on the side of the pond with all the stone and the beds I set up. If you look carefully you can see the black fry. I tried to collect some in my 1/8 inch net and the mesh was too large. I'm aware that toad tadpoles are similar in appearance but these are definitely fish as they don't have the bulbous head and they swim differently than tadpoles.
I also caught and removed 12 out of the 13 broodfish out of the pond as it seemed at least some were interested in eating them. Or perhaps there were still some fathead minnows left?
Hopefully I didn't jump the gun and prevent some from spawning that were still in the act or just beginning to.
