Originally Posted by FishinRod
Originally Posted by esshup
I doubt that I will see any in the ponds around here. They are so low water level wise that all the spawning habitat is above the water line now.

esshup,

With your "good" spawning habitat above the water line, will the YP not be able to have a successful spawn? Or will nature find a way, and they will utilize whatever they can find available at the existing pond level?

If they are not capable of pulling off a successful spawn, would deliberately drawing down a pond with a stunted YP population to skip one year class be another tool that we could employ in pond management?


I believe that it won't stop the YP from spawning, but their skeins will have to be laid on the pond bottom where they have a much higher chance of being covered with silt. Drawing down the pond will also concentrate the smaller fish in with the predator fish, and if there is no fish habitat for them to hide in, the predation rate will go up

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