Nice! But I can see the pale liver right through the skin.

Just kidding!

Well the pond with the Condello gills in a cage is ice free now. I removed three floaters, but the water is not clear enough to see to the bottom if there are any laying on the bottom. I'll have work on that later. Even if there are twice or three times that many that didn't make it, that's still not bad for 180 some fish.

In a cage in another pond where it's predominantly yellow perch I had two bluegill morts.

It may be the smaller holding ponds are not good for overwintering cage fish that are slightly less than four feet down in the water column. It may be since they are small ponds they cool down fast which is stressful. I had three ice ups and thaws this winter and between them there were high winds and temps in the teens before the ponds froze back up. May have super chilled the water. Max depth in the ponds is 7 to 9 feet depending on which pond.


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