It's hard to say as this is the first time I've used a seine preceding a total drawdown. I didn't have a seine the last time. The last time I did a total drawdown we just fished it really hard before completely drawing it down.

I will say the pond was not built for seining as the banks are too steep for easy seining. And we're not seasoned pros that seine on a regular basis although Scott is definitely better than me.

A member of my aquaculture board of directors runs a fish farm that apparently has ponds that are built for seining, and he says he gets very high percentage of the fish in the ponds.

BTW I got my 200 foot seine for $50.00! A fish farmer in Minnesota was retiring and shipped it to me. He didn't even want shipping but I insisted. He said it's had a lot of pulls but should do the job and it has! I cut off 60 feet for my production ponds that are only 40 feet wide. So the seine in the water is 140 feet long with the pond 130 feet wide.

Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 04/02/13 06:31 PM.
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