I'm on holidays and at my cabin so not much else to do other than bore yall with pics. Rbt are in 2 feet of water , sunfish are at all depths and there are massive schools of them. I don't see any dace minnows but I do see sticklebacks, going to need smb for sure this year to take care of some of these sunfish. I'm running loads of gravel out onto the ice in front my my incoming creeks and springs so itll drop when it melts. 36 inches of ice but still decent light below the surface. I'll oat a video in a couple of days...thank God it's starting to melt..
That looks great. Sunfish can tolerate lower O2 levels than Trout can. It's amazing that you could get that close to a sleeping otter!
I seem to have that effect on animals...
Up until 2 weeks or so ago the trout were right on the bottom..Like hugging the contours, now they are up tip, late season poor quality DO like you say. We've always found that in lakes around here in the winter..late season trout are hanging out at the mouths of creeks and hugging the ice.
Any idea how bottom feeders like suckers do in low DO? I have about 30 in there that should be pretty big...unless the sleeping otters got them.
