Four or five feet of ice is just another typical winter for us as well. People drive their trucks out onto the ice...towing house trailers!...for four months each winter.Jeez a 4 ft freeze is crazy. I don’t mind cold but that seems a bit much. Was 4 feet the frost line? How deep would you have had to go for it not to freeze all the way down?
Lol, I'm the last guy to ask about these fish. I'd never even seen one "on the hoof" until these two showed up in the net a couple weeks ago. But if they get even close to their potential size in your pond, it would still eventually be way too small for one, IMHO. Aside from size, the gaudy-looking pattern is ideal for camouflage when viewed from above. You'd rarely even see the thing.
I must admit, though, that seeing a big pointy dorsal fin sticking a foot or so out of the water in a backyard pond would have a certain cool factor...
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