Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted March 16, 2009 Root Admin Posted March 16, 2009 AJ Pratt and crew shocked last Wednesday night. Here's what AJ emailed me about their findings. We went out on Wednesday night and collected all the fish we needed (50 females and 150 males). The hatchery staff have the eggs from about half of the females and the remaining females should be ready to give up their eggs within the next day or two. Wednesday and Thursday will be the critical period, since some eggs will always go bad following the fertilization process. So at this time we should not have to go back for any more fish, but will re-evaluate later in the week. It is good thing to get this process completed in one evening. We were lucky that Table Rock was generating, since that always improves our catch. Overall, the population looks good. We saw good numbers of legal size fish as well as a few large fish. The largest was over 29" with an approximate weight of 12+ pounds. As of last Thursday, only a handful of females were flowing eggs, indicating we were in the early stages of the spawn.
DOITLOOKIT Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 AJ Pratt and crew shocked last Wednesday night. Here's what AJ emailed me about their findings. We went out on Wednesday night and collected all the fish we needed (50 females and 150 males). The hatchery staff have the eggs from about half of the females and the remaining females should be ready to give up their eggs within the next day or two. Wednesday and Thursday will be the critical period, since some eggs will always go bad following the fertilization process. So at this time we should not have to go back for any more fish, but will re-evaluate later in the week. It is good thing to get this process completed in one evening. We were lucky that Table Rock was generating, since that always improves our catch. Overall, the population looks good. We saw good numbers of legal size fish as well as a few large fish. The largest was over 29" with an approximate weight of 12+ pounds. As of last Thursday, only a handful of females were flowing eggs, indicating we were in the early stages of the spawn. Nice report Phil, thanks!!!
lonkm Posted March 17, 2009 Posted March 17, 2009 Now if AJ w0uld only give gps cooridnats. LOL Water depth would be helpful also.
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