I'm supposed to be picking up Specklebellies on Thurs that are 4"+ fish, and not all are spoken for, but a majority are. (getting around 65# of them). I'll be making sure that the rest are feed trained and larger for this Fall.
Let me check into what permits are needed for delivering fish to Mo. Maybe Rainman can help? I'll be meeting him in a few weeks to do a fish swap, maybe he can bring YP back to MO? He's near St. Louis.
That would be awesome, but I'd hate to commit to something like that without a definite finish date. I'd guesstimate within a month, but can't be 100%. 'N with this being my first foray into any of this, I'd really hate to go to a bunch of time & trouble just to inadvertently kill them off by mishandling them. Let's see how many RES & HBG I can keep alive before I go messing with the harder to source fish.
Might just hafta get out on the lake with my aunt or uncle & try to catch & bucket stock a handful of nice male BG to supplement the RES & hybrids that I can get here.
The guy at Raccoon Valley said I should give the bream a year, before stocking the YP & SMB, which he recommended putting in at the same time. My thinking was to get the bream in & feeding this summer (along with PK shrimp & FHM), then the YP in the fall, with SMB going in fall '23. Any reason to hold off on the YP till then?
