I will try to do that Bill.
Right now there are a gazillion FHM fry so the RES should have sufficient forage. I threw in a minnow trap the other day and got a dozen or so of adult FHM and threw them in the sediment pond to help populate it. I figured there were enough fry to utilize the BOW effectively that I can take out any adults for now.
My intention is as I do my hand feeding of the big pond will throw a minnow trap in the forage pond and catch a bunch and transfer to the big pond (starting next year). So my intention is to do as you say, and harvest the FHM regularly. How many per day or week I have no clue at this time. Will figure that out as I go along to try and keep a small number of adults for reproduction yet keep the numbers to a level the RES can reproduce. I'm staisfied that if adult FHM were in the pond in high enough numbers the RES would be overwhelmed and all their eggs be eaten. The little 4" RES male was keeping pretty busy just keeping the throngs of half inch FHM fry out of the nest.
