It's a weird winter down here. Unusually cold followed by unusually warm, then cold, again. The water is now back down into the 50s. It'll probably be getting colder for the next 10 days.
I sunk 5 wood pallets and staked them in about a foot of water, so they'd be easy to remove for seining the eating size CC. I put in 3 pounds of "Rosy Red" FHM and 1 pound of the normal colored FHM. After about 2 months, I had FHM every where. The FHM went after the floating catfish food and the CC would erupt out of the water eating the FHM. My girls were a bit nervous that they were swimming with such aggressive fish.
In the colder water, I see the FHM feeding, occasionally, but more rarely do I see one of the 150 CC.
About June, it'll be time to start harvesting CC for some good ol' southern fish fries.
