Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations How did the Northern ponds make it thru winter?

Do I count as Northern enough to answer?

I saw very few dead fish this Winter, just 4-5 small BG fingerlings.

I started feeding yesterday; put in a new feedring today (and attributed low turnout to having sledge hammered 3 T-posts in to hold the feedring). I will feel better when I see a larger number of CC show up to eat; I only had 6 or so there today, while I expect 20-30.

I am also a little worried by the good RW my LMB have exhibited all Winter long. This is supposed to be a bass-heavy, big BG pond. My LMB are so heavy I wonder if large numbers of them have disappeared somehow. I found the skull and partial tail skeleton of one of my original stocker LMB Saturday. It must have been 15-16" judging from the head size, although there wasn't enough of it left to guess how it died.