OK....time to put this to bed. I started feeding about 2 weeks ago but was out of town all last week. It is in the 70's today and the schools of HSB are cruising the beach area. There has been no mortality that is detectable. I've seen plenty of HSB & YP feeding on the AM 500. The reason for starting this thread to begin with was because I noticed that some new pond owners were getting a little "excited" about some of the things they were reading and the questions they were asking told me that they were getting worried about their situations......and quite frankly I started to question mine. What happend this year on my pond tells me that I have nothing to worry about with winter-kill as long as I maintain the same mgmt. strategy that I have been using. Anyone who read my initial post should be able to take the same comfort as long as their pond dynamics are similar to mine (unless your pond is in Anarctica). Again, I am 56yo and this was one of the worst winters in OHIO that I have experienced. Thanks much for all the input and I hope one(two)pond owner got something out of this. Jeff
