I have the back issues and do have that article for reference. It's a very complete account of how to. Thanks for reminding me.

I have a narrow creek arm in my main pond perfectly suited for this, or I could try to isolate as many fry as possible in the repro pond and keep the adults blocked. Seems to make more sense to try and catch the adults and pen them...but who know how well that will work.

I do think keeping the numbers of adult SMB low is important. I might add another 6 or so to try and ensure I have good F - M ratios...that would bring me to a total of 14 adult fish. Not too many to try and catch.

One more thing I have going for me is the high number of FHM and GSH in the pond...I'm hopeful they might relieve some of the cannibalistic predation on the YOY SMB.

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Last edited by teehjaeh57; 10/01/09 02:20 PM.
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