They definitely could be recruits then.
If the CC can find any kind of cavity they can protect they will try to spawn. Even a hole in the bank made by a former beaver or something like that. Big flat rock with an area under it, etc. In the rivers they will be under tree root balls that have been undercut by current, under submerged logs, etc.
I don't know if the female CC are more prone to being caught by hook and line or if the split in my pond is more female, but seems like 9 out of 10 wife fillets has eggs. Got one 3# out in the holding pen right now we need to go out and clean this morning. I bet it will be a female full of eggs.
We have a ton of 1-2#'er CC that we will have to really get after harvesting this fall. Or we will have too many too big next year. I keep saying I need to come up with a trapping or netting system to harvest more efficiently than just fishing for them. But have done nothing about it yet.
Last edited by snrub; 06/23/20 09:51 AM.
