I might buy some fall pond stock next year but in the spring I will put in a few river SMB as a bonus. I'm not sure how "river" Mississippi River SMB truly are, being they're impounded in mostly low current pools - they act just like lake SMB as opposed to small stream fish. Their patterns seem to be exactly the same, run up small creeks to spawn in the spring, then revert to hanging around rock/rip rap the rest of the warm water months, in the winter they cruise deeper backwaters.


Mat Peirce
1.25 acre southeast Iowa pond
LMB, BG, YP, WE, HSB, RES, BCP