I feel guilty I am just mentioning this now a few months following the event - but both Bruce and I pulled very late Summer RES spawns, and that was a first for both of us, I believe. I had a few males visibly bedded around my dock, probably in many other places around the pond. Originally I thought they were BG, until I caught a few of the bedded fish - Male RES! At Bruce's I saw at least 5-6 beds in the bay near his dock, in very shallow water. The fish [M RES I assume] were quite large, also.

RES are commonly reported to be single spawners - these fish either:

1. Delayed spawning until Summer was winding down and photoperiod and water temps matched their late Spring preferences - which just doesn't seem feasible.

2. RES had multiple spawns.

Figured this was important to share as I've never read any reports for RES of this nature. Bruce will hopefully chime in with his take.

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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