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Forage bump 2024 started today! I was hoping to hold off on this for another couple of weeks but due to the recent drops in RW I decided to get a little early start.

Recent trapping was not very successful on locating good numbers of BG. I did see some here and there but nothing I could say I felt comfortable on numbers with. TP 1-4", and mosquito fish seemed to be pretty prevalent in at least a couple areas of the pond. Out deeper it looked like some 5-6" GSH, 5-6" TP were hitting pellets on the top of the water. I did find (4) rather large crays in one of the traps that are much larger than anything I've put in. I don't think they are the same species from the creek and they are likely out of the range of my current predator base consume. Next year however....I'd love to see that battle royal take place.

I ended up stocking 44lbs of Shiners in the 3" avg range and 8lbs of shiners in the 4" range just in case one of the LMB or YP feels adventurous.

Still have an additional round of forage bump to go for another 100lbs of GSH and 1,000 BG in the 3-4" range.

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Couple of pics from the adventures.