Wood,

There's a gate? I thought there was only a barbed wire fence to stop the cold air from coming down? I hope you like winter up there. It's sounds like a long one. I'm sure you appreciate spring when it comes.

The brook trout I was referring to were harvested this fall. They were quite domesticated although they did not come very close to shore in open water. The Nipigons are a different story. They are about as wild as they can be. But I have been able to concentrate at least some of them for feeding in the open water in the ice created by the diffuser. I may have to invest in a seine and concentrate them at one end of the pond this spring to really get them feeding together. They just are so scattered in open water I am wasting a lot of feed throwing it everywhere. I need a seine at some point anyway as I never harvest all of the fish by angling.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.