Yeah, the HSB losses were sad. I also bought (10) HSB for my neighborhood pond, and had one that was D.O.A. when I got them home, so 9 went into my pond. No floaters thus far, and a neighborhood kid caught one on a fly rod.
Since the day of one of the first SMB stockings, we haven't seen any SMB yet. If the largest stockers survived, they would be 7"+ by now with all the forage in the pond.
