Rex - I probably should get the meter out to either confirm or deny my concerns. Even though they are deep, they are only about 2/3 and 1/3 acre each. I've got upwards of 10+ inches of ice so I'll have to break out my little 1" spade bit to get thru. I think I can get the probe down thru a small hole. If not I'll break out a mattock. No ice auger here.
Since the ponds are 3 years old I was gonna start some serious culling this year. I don't believe they are over populated but I could tell last fall the native BG had lived up to their reputation of high fecundity.
Hopefully nature hasn't done the culling for me already!!
Chuck
Chuck,
Make sure you move your probe back and forth as per directions or you will get a lower reading than it really is. I believe you are supposed to swish the probe back and forth 1 foot per second?
I'm cautiously optimistic. I was finally able to get the lid lifted off of a cage I have large bluegills in. I saw no morts and no fungus and they look good. All my caged fish are alive except for one perch and that may be one I netted out of the cage a month ago and put back. My logic is if the caged fish are alive, even if D.O levels got dangerously low in deeper water, the free swimming fish would have come up in the water column to higher D.O. levels. I have my fingers crossed!
I may have lucked out by the skin of my teeth on this one and caught it before I would have lost fish. Next year diffusers in all the ponds running on the shallow ends of the pond in conjunction with removal of snow!
