I guess I need to get a digital scale- how much damage will handling these fish- since I'm releasing them because this is their first year and this spring will be their first spawn. These are the broodstock so I don't want to damage them. Yet!
I had stocked 800/200 CNBG/ RES at the same time as the 300 BCP. Also added 50 1-1-1/2# CNBG from a neighboring pond. Also 50# FHMs added. Last early summer swarms of LMB showed up along shorelines. Bucket stocked adults I guess,anyway they and the crappie ate all the forage including YOY CNBG. Set minnow trap and caught no YOY. Since then I added 50/50 a Shiner/ FHMs to get my babies(BCP) through till the spawn this spring. There is brush piles/ cedar trees , one rockpile on top of 4 pallets, and about 1ac. Flooded timber/ brush/ youpon in the creek .
Pat W
