I have one more egg strand in the water in the big pond. However it's entirely possible there may be some in deeper water as I have some cutoff dead cattail stocks there that I cannot readily inspect.

Water is moving up in temp now, and I fed a large hungry group of largemouth off the pier softened pellets. I think I will terminate the perch fishing, and give the bass a break as we catch and release a lot of them to catch the perch. Looks like 55 perch will have to do the job in the new pond. I can always add more icefishing if I don't drain the big pond this fall.

I'm trying to get the perch in their new pond to feed on the soft pellets squeezed to make them sink as per the master Bill Cody. I saw 5 in a group today but they were very skiddish. Wow what a sight to see large perch swimming by with those big black bars!

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.