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RAH,

Did you have a spawn 2014? I stocked 50 YP 5 to 7 inches last fall and was told to expect a spawn this year by both Bill C. and the biologist at the fish farm I use.

Edit: Do you have a lot of branch type structure for the spawn habitat? I read a paper by Dave Willis that stated, in the absence of branch type structure, the YP will lay the strands on the bottom of the pond and survival will be very low, if at all.