My YP were stocked by Rainman in October.(YEAH!) My goal is abundant reproduction for LM forage. To help judge if they help the wr for the lm, I am going to post 2015 results from my charting efforts. About 95% of fish caught were charted. 24 LM were tagged. I plan to tag 5 or 6 LM each year going forward.
Total lm caught: 213, 142 culled
Ave length: 10.3"
Ave WR: 83%
159 <12", 124 were culled
15 12"-16", 6 were culled
39 >16" 12 were culled
Total BG caught: 492, 19 were culled, all culled fish were over 9"
13< 5"
295 5"-8"
184 >8
I also caught 19RES, 45 GSF and 11 that looked like various hybrids between the GSF, RE and BG. All GSF and Hybrids were culled.
I have no idea what a reasonable goal is for a single year increase in WR would be, but my ultimate goal would be to have ave wr of all lm to be over 90% for the year.
Happy to hear feedback, questions, comments and suggestions.
I think Bill Cody suggested documenting stomach contents on culled LM. That will be done in 2016.
CMM
