Frank, my cnbg have feed fairly aggressively daily this winter. Most likely due to a mild winter other than for maybe a two week period during Feb. Every pond/lake is different. Do you think all the predictors are having an effect on your cnbg feeding at the feeders? Or did you stop feeding and they have not come back to feeding station at this time? And Blasted cormorants, that's what I would do!
Zep, opps that's a beaver my bad
Weird, isn't it? But creel results show the same at my place: CNBG totally absent. My son did see tons of tiny "minnows" near the dock, which I'm guessing are actually results of first LMB spawn.