Hey fellow Husker, welcome to the forum! I love your fishery goals, SMB are amazing and a lot of fun to manage.

I manage several fisheries in NE and many feature cool water species [SMB, HSB, YP, WE] and am happy to help. I am also the only SMB hatchery in NE so can provide some insight there, too. Feel free to reach out anytime - too much to relate here. HBCP can work as they do in my fishery, but it requires pretty dense predator populations, which provides yet another management challenge.



Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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