Had some recent rains causing my sediment and forage ponds to overflow into the main pond (normal). One thing that fascinates me is how small BG desire to swim upstream. It is hard to make out the fish in the pictures but the 1" long BG are massed together in this flowing water crowded up against rocks or anything that gets them temporarily out of the current while they rest getting ready to make a run against the current trying to get upstream into another pond. There are hundreds of them staging. In one picture it looks like a couple BG are stranded and perhaps dead. But when I put my finger down by them they took off. They will find any crack or depression to get out of the current while waiting to make the run.

I see this every time there is a rain that causes this overflow. Sometimes the fish are of a larger size, often times 2-3" fish. If the water is at just the right flow amount, the main pond at the right height I have witnessed 3" BG swim up the waterfall flowing into the 90 degree elbo of the overflow pipe and make it from my main pond to the sediment pond. None have ever made it into my forage pond. Out of hundreds of trys in the sediment pond I saw 3 fish make it. None of these small fish in the pictures will make it. Water level is too low in the main pond. But it will not keep them from trying. Persistence.

The last picture of one of the fish with my fingers for size comparison. Fish between 1 and 1.5".

It is no wonder fish move from one BOW to another in the most shallow water.

PBF informal get together September 22, 2018

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Last edited by snrub; 09/07/18 12:15 AM.
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