Cecil
Thanks for all the good and timely info on sexing YP. I caught and ate several from my pond the other day, attempting to sex them before they got the knife.
As an aside, last week we caught 19 NP from a local lake, a BOW that most Pond Boss readers would consider a pond (approx. 200 acres. As many people know, we here out West call trickles "creeks", creeks "rivers", and our river "the Colorado" Ha!) The pike had not yet spawned. The overlap in length between females and males was nearly non existent, as all males but one were 20" to 23"; all females but one were 24" to 30".
Hope all you northern pondmeisters are seeing open water.
Roger
