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I am wondering? Why do the fish and animals spawn or reproduce @ my place @ different times than others here? An example would be my FHM's seamed to have reproduced when water temps were 74 degrees not before. And I have not seen any fry from the Tilapia or from the GSH or the RES, but the banks are covered in FHM's thousands of them. I put in 120 lbs of FHM into the pond and now the fry are in one long chain of fry around the banks. Maybe I can not tell the difference but all the fry look the same. As I read here, it seams like you guys North are having spawning in much cooler water temps. Is that a regional thing? Or am I not able to distinguish the difference in the fry? I see no spawning beds on the RES or CNBG, the larger CNBG I see seam to be around 4" in length and girth, not sure about the res, as I never see any. and where do the Tilapia spawn?

Thanks

Tracy

For the last two years I have not seen our perch spawn but I have some 10" perch and some 5-6" perch in my pond. This spring we have been catching the smaller not stocked perch 3-1 so they are spawning.

The only sure way I have found is to catch them and one day they will be fat with eggs and the next not.

Our pond is very cold right now still. We are at 48*F with a few warm days coming. For the last two weeks we have not been catching the minnows in the traps we had like just one of two minnows and not 25-50 as we did.

Warming for the next few days then I expect one more cold snap before I can get the feeder fired up.

Fishing can catching your fish is a sure bet way to see if they are spawning in the pond. Just because you cant see them doesn't mean they are not finding away.

Cheers Don.