I too have healthy looking FA growing this Winter (more than I had all Summer when the fish were more active and apparently eating it). This is probably the longest & most extreme January Thaw (started in December) of my lifetime - certainly that I can remember.

Took advantage of the 56 deg Temp after work and went fishing. I caught a bunch of Golden Shiners who appeared to have been eating ...(drumroll)... FA. They all were pretty fat. I suspect it was my large GShiner population that kept the pond virtually FA-free all Summer.


"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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