My aesthetic goal for my pond at the house was the Canadian Shield lake look. Spruce do drop needles at least my black spruce do. It is pretty surprising how many needles they shed each year. I will try to measure how far my spruce are from the pond this weekend. I get the most needs during the stronger wind storms.
Univ Of WI at Madison fisheries people should know of sources of pellet YP in your region. There might be WI or MN aquaculture website for useful pellet trained YP. When wild YP are stocked into the pond it is harder to get them to accept pellets compared to BG. Actually pretty difficult unless they were pretrained prior to stocking. Do some good homework. Univ of WI did a lot of pioneer work with aquaculture YP and pellet raised WE.
