I picked up 400 smallmouth bass fingerlings today in Gobles, Michigan from Laggis Fish Farms. He said they were 3 to 4 inches but they are really 4 to 5 inches. (No complaints there). 16 buckets with 25 fish in each, inside bags of mostly oxygen. 200 I picked up for another party that couldn't make it to fish pick up today. About an hour and a half drive before planting for the other party and another half hour for me. Fish seemed fine and not piping. I picked up some feed also and would not have been able to fit in another bucket!
Here's a few pics:
Here's one of them. Hard to get a clear picture if the fish does not want to stay still!
Here is some in the bag just before planting into the cage.
Here is a family of cages I have now have off the pier in the biggest pond. The first cage is the 200 four to five inch feed trained smallmouth. The next one is about 250 4 to 6 inch Bordello bluegills, followed by about 350 5 to 8 inch yellow perch in the next cage with some smaller Bordello bluegill. The last cage is about 250 8 inch plus male and female yellow perch. My largest 9 inch plus female perch are free swimming in the pond as are the largest male bluegills up to over a 1 lb.
