You can gather valuable info now through a variety of methods and you should do so and write down the info so Todd can look at it with you and answer the questions. Keep catch records with RW date and a pic of some BG and LMB and HSB. Seine survey can be done by one person with a 40 ft X 4 ft net from Walmart. There is a thread here on it but I will include a link below. Watch your water temps and note when the LMB and BG spawn. Look for water dimpling early in am and late in afternoon in areas of open water after plankton bloom in spring and early summer. That will be TFS eating . If you see that then they survived and probably spawned. Your LMB should be able to spawn this spring if 12 in +-.

See this pg 16 - 17

http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1428.pdf

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