Bill, I got same ribbons from a fish farm yesterday and placed them in my pond and a friends pond. They were like wet toilet paper and were ripping apart. Ended up being a lot of short sections of eggs with the longest being maybe 8 inches or so. I had to throw them a few feet into my friends pond to get them to lay on a submerged pine and then use a longer branch to wrap them in between branches. Are the eggs pretty resilient with some handling like I did? How long until you can minnow trap them and identify there survival?

.75 acre pond dug in September 2016. YP, HBG, HSB, SMB, and RES.