Snipe, thanks for continuing to post the fascinating details about the state's ongoing LMB improvement project!
If I am reading your post above correctly, then it appears that it is much more certain to create a 100% female LMB pond than a 100% male LMB pond?
(I just typed a post above about the possible advantage of a 100% male LMB pond. As usual, it appears that I am a day late and a dollar short!)
Since it is not certain to express milt/sperm from a male LMB, how effective is sexing utilizing the "observational behavior" method? For example, if you made a grow-out pond with some good area for bass nests, could you get a 100% male LMB sample if you only took the bass guarding the nest with a cast net?
P.S. Which raises another question - if you want to post about the "capture" methods that are used at the state fishery. For example, how do you selectively capture the shooters from a tank of 8-10" bass? (Or do you just capture them all and then hand sort for the shooters?)
