I doubt the spotfin shiners will use the dead spruce trees as spawning structure. They need fairly deep narrow crevices for egg deposit. You might get GSH shiners laying eggs on the filamentous algae that grows on the spruce branches.

Last edited by Bill Cody; 12/21/22 10:14 PM.

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