Hello Dave - great to hear from you!

Yes mineral content is also high - I'm within 10 miles of Bruce. That's something I NEVER would have considered, so thanks for the enlightenment.

The impetus for this came after dragging seines overweighted with filamentous algae and convinced I was having a stroke I began thinking, "TJ - there HAS to be an easier way to collect fish..." I thought by reducing depth of pond from 9 to 2' and corraling fish into a corner of the pond and repeatedly "shocking it" I could not only make collection something I could do solo but would also save a ton of inefficient effort dragging seines thru FA and missing over half of them every time.

I'm fully prepared to admit that sometimes there exist no shortcuts or ways to improve efficiency and am a glutton for arse busting work. HOWEVER - I am ALSO prepared to buy several cases of beer and Green Egg a tenderloin and see if I can convince Bruce, Treeplanter and Shorty to come and "supervise" the seining!

What do you think of the electrofishing corral concept? Asinine?

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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