Board,

I was wondering if any of you, particularly in the NE Indiana and West Central Ohio areas have experienced a loss of fish in the last few days.

We have a 2 acre pond and I've raked out about 20 mature BG and a couple of mature LMB in the last 2 days. I hope it's nothing bad but I haven't had this many go at once before.

Maybe it's temperature related since summer has finally started here. We have about a 30 degree difference in temperature over two weeks ago.

Is it normal to lose some after a spawn?

Could these be older fish just expiring normally?

What gets me is we don't use any kind of chemicals in the pond and all the fish appear to be about the same size 6 to 8" for the BG and 12 to 14" for the LMB.

I did add HSB about 4 weeks ago but haven't seen any problems with them.

Thanks for any input,

Chip