Bruce, there were no special conditions at all in this pond. We were holding blue cats in it for hybrid use. We used some and left others and we had fry. There is nothing in this pond but a slick bottom with no spawing cans or anything. I'm guessing that you can spawn them just like ccf. I restocked this fingerling (6"-8") in a 5 acre pond and am currently raising them to a 2# fish just to see how they will do. It took awhile to get them back on feed after we moved them so we put some channel cat with them to get them going. We don't raise blues but since we had the fingerlings, we thought we would try it and see how it goes. So far I guess they are sold as soon as they get big enough. May have to try and raise some more someday.

Kodiak