It finally warmed up enough here in Misery to melt some of the ice off of my bait pond. Until last week there hadn't been any open water back there since the end of December. I took a look at it before the ice was completely gone, and noticed several dead BG. Also noticed a few not dead BG that swam up to see what I was doing. Went back there again yesterday afternoon. All of the ice is gone now, and I didn't see any dead fish. Saw one live fish, a ~6" BG that was badly infected with that white fungus stuff. I tossed a couple handfuls of Optimal BG, but nobody came up to eat it. Shallow as that pond is, after 8 weeks under ice I'm a bit surprised that any of the fish in that pond are still alive.
Haven't found a free minute to drop a line in the cow pond since the ice came off of it. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what the Snipe strain YP are looking like now. There ought to be a dozen or so that are >16".
