Bill, We are having similar thoughts here
Now as far as an E survey, we recently completed one in early March and as I said, the average Wr/Rw on those lmb was 124. That's pretty good and is headed in the right direction for a Trophy lmb pond where the lmb are few per acre but show some good growth. The cnbg and res samples at that time showed few fish in the 1 to 3" range along with the pond having good numbers of 4" and up. I think the lmb had been feeding on those 1 to 3" cnbg through the winter and that is why numbers of those size were low. Today after a few rolling spawns, I see a lot of 1 to 3" cnbg.
And I will be adding 100 lbs of 8 to 12" lmb in the next two weeks. I am doing this because of no lmb recruitment has been seen, and I don't want to be where all my lmb die of old age at the same time and leave the pond baron of lmb in the future. At some point in the future, I think the lmb will balance out as long as there is some management.
