So here's one for ya....I was swimming in our small pond with the kids Tuesday afternoon....beautiful day and the water clarity was absolutely amazing. Just a great day.

My daughter and I are floating on a couple of noodles just hanging out when several small (2-3 inches) fish start swimming around us, investigating things. It's obvious some of them are LMB but there are others with a similar shape that don't seem to be. I start working on catching one with my hands. I catch a couple of the LMB and then I clearly catch a small WE!

I drained, killed off and restocked this pond a couple of years ago with the goal of a YP/RES fishery with WE and SMB as my predators. It did not go as planned as at least one LMB survived long enough to spawn. BUT - it certainly appears that the WE figured out a way to spawn. There's no way the 2.5 inch fish I hand caught could be 2+ years old.

I don't know a ton about WE spawning requirements, I just knew (or sure thought I did) that they couldn't spawn in a pond. How is this possible?

Dale

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