Bill I left on spring break to make a run into the hill country of the ozarks. Much more to be said about my trip through 'Misery' and into Arkansas, learned a lot but also have a lot of questions...
But during my 10 days gone, I came back and due to heavy rain events are about 1 foot higher on the banks and the water is a bit silted up. I can still make out the egg strands although they are now in about 24 inches instead of 8 inches of water. I did not see any new strands so either my female YP are mostly gone or we just didn't have many egg layers this year.
I have had less and less strands the last few years and even less fertilizing. But my original stocking was I believe in 2014 so they must be gone (can YP live in a small pond to 10 years old?) and some of the early years of reproduction must also be getting old and tired. We had not had many visible young YP in the shallows the last 3 years.
Time to make a road trip to Laggis again and start over.
