Boondoggle, your samples are helpful indeed. Thank you.
Bill, what say you for mid October 2025?
Boondoggle's data was helpful to me to design a constraint for modeling first year growth with climate. Knowing his forage in place and with water temp included I'll estimate an average weight of 1 lbs on April 1st and an average length of 11.5".
Not sure how the spawn is going to affect growth. Not sure how many males will be culled. Not sure how much survival of original stocking. Also not sure what kind of recruitment of LMB will take place. Not sure how the current population of BG plays into providing and/or producing consumable forage next year. But I will venture a guess for mid-October next year. I'll estimate a range of weights from 1.5 to 3lbs averaging 2.40 lbs. with lengths ranging from 14 to 16 inches and averaging 15". This could be too conservative, and I hope it is.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so - Will Rogers
