NNAFish, another question. I was listening to your video on shallow water spawning habitat and you said you placed your best spawning gravel bed on the north/northeast side of the pond as you said this was the side of the pond that would warm up the fastest in the spring.

I am confused as my pond is also considered a 'northern' pond and I assume our longitude is about the same depending how far north or south you are in Iowa. In my pond the perch eggs go in the South or Southeast corner of the pond first every year and I would assume that would mean the south or SE warms up most quickly.

How could it be the opposite in your pond?