Osse
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I have a .8 acre, 8+ foot deep, spring fed pond. The guy who's dredging it is going to give me some rainbow trout he farms when its done.
Everything I see says that spawning rainbow trout is hard, and that you should just buy hatchlings. Which makes sense if you're going for aquaculture profit, but I'm more interested in creating a sustainable system I can pull a handful of fish out of every year. I'm also willing to do ridiculous detail oriented stuff (like making a nice sexy spawning bed) which probably isn't on fish farmer's agenda.
I'm having a hard time finding info on what features / specs a pond would need for trout to successfully spawn. Is anyone familiar with this? Does anyone do this?
Everything I see says that spawning rainbow trout is hard, and that you should just buy hatchlings. Which makes sense if you're going for aquaculture profit, but I'm more interested in creating a sustainable system I can pull a handful of fish out of every year. I'm also willing to do ridiculous detail oriented stuff (like making a nice sexy spawning bed) which probably isn't on fish farmer's agenda.
I'm having a hard time finding info on what features / specs a pond would need for trout to successfully spawn. Is anyone familiar with this? Does anyone do this?