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BioHavens and Bass

5/18/2021

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Fishing for bass among BioHavens is an exciting strategy for algae reduction on Fish Fry Lake

A smiling woman holds up a stringer of large bass harvested from Fish Fry Lake
The first three bass from Fish Fry Lake to be harvested in 2021 in our "grow fish instead of algae" stewardship program
​It’s just now mid-May and our water temperature has finally edged over 60 degrees, on top.  Fish Fry Lake went through its seasonal turnover a month ago, so dissolved oxygen (DO) was homogenous across the water table for a few weeks.  When that happened, bass were everywhere in the lake, top to bottom, even in its deepest reaches where DO normally diminishes as the season progresses.  We fished spoon plugs, minnow and crawfish imitations.  The use of “plastics” started yesterday, those plastic worms, probably imitating leeches, that seem to trigger insane bass action.  The official beginning of the new season started with a big bang!

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A Step Towards Paradise... How Do We Build On Nature's Model and Create Beauty and Abundance?

5/13/2021

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Manmade nutrients are being unleashed against water at pandemic volumes. We have no choice but to fix this, unless we are prepared to dig our own graves. The benefits outweigh the costs.

A beautiful vista for an island launch on a snowy day
A snowy Spring launch into a trout pond near Ennis, MT, ensures a great start for the plants, which will mature into a beautiful island over the summer
​Just the other day we launched BioHaven Floating Islands in an early spring snowstorm. The setting was Montana’s Madison Valley, not far from Yellowstone National Park. The source water we were launching on emits from the Madison range, from the ski hills of Big Sky and the back country of Cowboy Heaven.  

​As we worked, trout were bulging, hitting some kind of emerging nymph. Some of the trout created wakes as large as a blanket beaver.  

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Three Ways To Grow Fish... Or Not

5/11/2021

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Floating Islands Help Fish Grow and Prevent Algae from Growing

A nice stringer of bass caught in BioHaven-enhanced Fish Fry Lake
A nice stringer of bass caught in BioHaven-enhanced Fish Fry Lake
​Of the nearly 10,000 BioHaven floating islands launched since Floating Island International opened its doors in 2005, a sizable number have been focused on fishery enhancement.  People like myself, who grew up with a fishing pole in their hands, pick up on the idea that nature can be helped.  Nature can be enhanced.  Building an ultimate fishing hole, or supporting a public fishery with good habitat design, has motivated many island launches.  But there’s usually only a vague understanding of just how floating islands help fish grow.  For certain, the other two popular methods to grow fish are better understood.  But are they better for water?

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A Step Towards Paradise

5/9/2021

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We must maintain aerobic conditions top to bottom in our freshwater settings. When we do this, we are rewarded with super abundance. When we don’t do this, we experience an anaerobic nightmare of decline

On a spring day. after a heavy all of snow, this floating island is launched into a trout pond near Ennis, Montana
A beautiful scene of a snow-cobvered floating island waiting to be planted and launched into a trout pond near Ennis, Montana
​Yesterday we launched BioHaven Floating Islands in an early spring snowstorm.  The setting was Montana’s Madison Valley, not far from Yellowstone Park.  The source water emits from the Madison range, from the ski hills of Big Sky and the back country of Cowboy Heaven.  

As we worked, large trout, some that created wakes as large as a blanket beaver, swirled nearby targeting some emergent nymph.  Wet knees notwithstanding, we had two more BioHavens in place on the water, prepped to expand and build on nature’s wetland effect, in just an hour and a half.  The wet snow on this early spring day made for cold hands, but not that cold.  The boggy riparian edge of the spring ponds made for wet feet too, but nothing that wouldn’t dry in a short while.

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