Nice looking fish Cecil. That's too bad about the 50 fish loss.
What is the plan for next year??
Haven't decided yet, but all the fish have been removed and the pond refilled.
Choices are:
Do it all over again with brook trout. Large brook trout are hard to find and a lucrative market.
Do it all over again with brook and brown trout. (Brown trout are also lucrative but not as lucrative.)
Rotate to all brown trout due to potential stress issues on brook trout by brown trout.
or
Use the pond for holding male yellow perch and female bluegill broodstock. Don't crank back up with trout until the pole building goes up and I get my airlift system and tanks going. I will be hatching my own eggs by that point from a supplier in Utah that sells four kinds of trout and diploids and triploids.
