I have read here on the forum that adding some cover in shallow water for protection of your forage fish will allow higher survival rates and also what does survive will give hiding places so they can reach a reasonable size to provide a better meal for your predators.

So if you lack cover for your BG YOY fish, you might consider adding some shallow cover like cedar trees along the shore line. The BG are prolific reproducers but if their fry are getting nearly all of them eaten before they reach an inch long they are providing very little forage. Need to give them hiding places so they can reach at least a few inches in length.

I currently have the opposite problem. My BG have reproduced wonderfully, but my LMB population has lagged. I did put in a lot of structure when I built the pond.

John

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