Geez, now you all have the wheels turning in my punkin' head!
I was going to try some tank spawning LMB this season. We have always put them in spawning ponds,and then either removed the fry, or seined out the brood, depending on the available food.
Then we bring them in as fingerlings for feed training.
I've been in contact with some of the Texas guys who tank spawn LMB, and THINK I'm ready to go. But I may hold some and try stripping them. Just finished up with walleye and seem to have finally gotten it down, using HCG to push them, irregardless of the female's stage. (all the tubing was adding a lot of stress-now it's a shot,check at 48 hrs:if not running,same dose, another 48 hrs,and most are running). I've done them all dry the last few years, as I am usually here by myself.Check the female, if she's running, I dry her off and strip in a DRY bowl.The dry and strip males, then add water to activate, stir, deadhesive treatment,etc, Hatching pretty good this morning.
I wonder what the window is on LMB. Most of my work has been with stripers which seem to have a very narrow window. Since we are no longer making hybrids, I let them do their thing in a sytsem that simply collects the eggs after they spawn. Bouyant and non-adhesive,so works great.
If anyone has strip spawned LMB please give me a shout or reply here.
And warmouth are one of my favorite fish. Keep us posted!
