I wont be adding HBC until I can verify their fecundity, or lack thereof.

Tagging would be cool...that's been on my list of considerations.

Yes we've harvested a dozen so far, mainly invertabrates [I think, black mush] and the minnows they were able to steal off our slip bobber rigs.

I keep cattails sprayed so muskrats haven't been too much of an issue, at least I don't think. I never see any swimming, but do see some holes from time to time.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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