CJBS, some of your pictures from the first page of this thread seem down or maybe my work filtered connection is blocking pictures that are hosted on facebook or some other hosting page. I'd love to get those pictures into photobucket or some other hosting program?

How are your LCS? You said it took 3 years to spawn?

Chris Steelman, how did your LCS do? Seeing any juveniles with the give away black stripes on them?

Any others watching this thread have any updates?

Did Todd Overton's growing pond for LCS have any success and is it an ongoing endeavor?

I was very glad to find an adult LCS of spawning size in my trap this spring and caught one again last week that looked healthy. It has been 2 years but I think I can identify LCS young in the shallows, so far can't get them to enter traps.

It appears that my Grand Rapids, MI pond allowed for successful growth and spawn and survival of young. I would say the northern limit of LCS is still north of where I live yet!

The like clearer water and after soilfloc and removal of about 70% of my adult goldfish my water is clearer. I have zero vegetation except a bit of FA in the first 1 foot of water and some sedges growing in 1 foot of water. Somehow they found a place to put their eggs and they survived the other fish in there (RES, LES, GSH, goldfish, perch and crayfish).

If overton isn't selling then brian zimmerman may be the only source that is shipping right now? He sold me 25 and If I'm IDing the minnows correctly that I didn't need to stock any more than that to get a population going in my .25 acre puddle.

If I can figure out how to readily trap them I'd be willing to try to help others get them established.

They seem to take a few years to grow to reproducing size but once established would be a great forage fish option for SMB or LMB.