Here are smallmouth (orangish when illuminated) and a few fatheads under the light and belt feeder tonight. I think most are after zooplankton but I'm pretty sure I saw some smallmouth already ingesting starter powder. If not perhaps they may learn from the fatheads, which take to artificial feed quite rapidly?
On another note I thought I saw a couple of yellow perch in this pond after looking at the photo below. If that's the case I may have a hole bored through by five start moles once again. The pond adjacent to the smallmouth hatchery pond is for yellow perch and bluegill production.
What do you think? Could the one barred fish in the photo be a yellow perch? There's also another fish below it and slightly right near he bottom of the photo that seems to have the profile of a yellow perch.
