Having the object in the water is definitely an interesting idea. Check out this picture. The snow around the little generator shed and the big rock have clearly been melted. I can only guess that was from the sun heating them up. The sun up there is definitely "different". You could probably fry an egg on the hood of your truck when it is 70 degrees outside. Maybe the metal pipe trick would work.
IM more likely to be in your boat in the middle of winter. It all depends on what the year holds. This is my first winter with a ton of LMB that I lucked out on. I think I have wayyyyy to many as a result of three bass I threw in here from a private pond. I also have a new aeration system and aerated all summer in the middle f the night. Fish are very active and the winter the pond WILL FREEZE but the snow depth can be like this at times if it snows hard enough.
Im reading all this but if I set my aerators at a shallow level when winter starts, the pond will rise significantly as its on an underground spring and run off. So the aerators will be deeper as the winter progresses.
I have a feeling I will have some LMB loss as my pond is getting low and there hundreds if not thousands of LMB in a small acre size pond that hits twice that size when it fills back up.
RUMBLON
