So why don't you walk us through what we're looking at the last time we saw
anything here we had a lot of more yellowish eggs right right how I'm gonna
go you ready yeah yeah well these eggs have been in here these eggs were
harvested on the 11th so they're getting pretty old typically they
hatch in about 21 days at 50 degrees but our water temperature has not been
averaging 50 degrees so they're taking a little longer than that but that's a
good round number 50 degrees average water temperature they'll hatch in 21
days now everyone these little eggs now has a little embryo in it and the reason
they're dark is because the most obvious part of that embryo is there two little
black eyes and that's why they look like why they look if you could really
focus in some of them are hatching you can see them glitting up now and then but
these on top are empty eggshells when the little embryo exits the eggshell the
eggshell stays put hopefully otherwise it goes out and plugs up our filters but
what happens is as they start to decay fungus the same fungus that decays a
fish dead fish out in the lake gets on these and it can be a serious problem
otherwise it's just a visual problem I took I cleaned these this morning but now
we've got big clunks and to clean them all you do is you shut the water off
this is the delivery tube the way these work is water goes down the delivery
tube goes down and it's held off the bottom with these three flanges and then
wells up and that's what lifts the eggs you can see the eggs now they're they're
settling down we typically put 80 ounces of eggs in here there's 4,000 per liquid
ounce so that's 320,000 eggs so I'm gonna say right now we probably have
70,000 eggs still left in here so that'd be about 280 240,000 little fish in this
one jar and then all I do to clean the fungus eggs out
got to work it down to the bottom and lift all the clumps up and just slowly
lift it up and the eggs will settle through the slits in the spool
and there's a side byproduct of that rough housing with the with the eggs will
actually cause the fried hatch quicker so there's two drawbacks but like I said
those are fungus eggs mostly dead egg or empty eggshells and we just
discarded them there's not real scientific it's just
a matter of house cleaning and I could have used a smaller spoon the spoon just
barely fits but like I said is this is a byproduct of shutting the water off
it causes the eggs to hatch so once they hatch how do they get outside well the
water the water is going down that tube and then wells up and there's a
there's a overflow spout on every one of these jars that goes into that long
collection trough two-inch flexible hose on the outside it's hooked to the
manifold it goes along behind the tanks and we got a series of valves so we
can segregate and that's what we do is we segregate by day because we hold them
about 48 hours they have a yolk sac attached to their abdomen and they can't
vertically swim through the water so you want to give them time to absorb that
yolk sac before you take them out there because but the embryos will swim up on
their own no they're washed out yeah they don't swim as a side note we've done
northern eggs in here and they don't come out you have to pour them out they
have a whole different biological rhythm that when they hatch in in a lake or
whatever they have an organ on top of their head and they latch up underneath
the piece of vegetation hang there until their yolk sac is gone these don't have
that that benefit so but otherwise the embryos start out they're like to the
big amusement park ride going down the tubes yep like it or not they don't have
a choice we written our our hatcheries have been an evolution when we first
started hatching we're going to be oh we can catch all these inside the
hatchery we don't need all those tanks out there so we had a bottom tank down
there trying to catch four million little fry in one tank it doesn't work so like
I said this whole thing has been an evolution of design and fortunately I
have some photographs of those old hatcheries so I in my show and tell
session that I I show people we we do learn even though we're all but the old
guy we do we do learn
the reason I put water in there are some live fry or maybe live eggs that come
out with the with the decayed stuff so and by shutting this off like this for
ten minutes it will cause it will cause the hatch to pop I might have been a
little the standard measure for eggs in a liquid ounce there's 4,000 per
liquid ounce but those are the new eggs and these eggs because they're almost
twice the size because there's an embryo developing inside there may not be
quite as many eggs in that one jar as I said there was
it's just good housekeeping because if you don't do this the fungus will take
over the entire egg mass and destroy the entire egg mass
I didn't do these two down the end this morning the egg the dead egg mass
collects on that on the fins on the bottom of that tube and that's what
occurs that's why I say housekeeping is is absolutely important in this process
he has to kind of mat
they catch on the bottom of that of that fin and it doesn't take long for
that just rise up and really take over the jar
you sometimes have to be fairly aggressive getting it up and I'm gonna
wait to do that one until Mark and Mark get here because they've never done
this with the spoon before
how is your close-up let's put a different lens on and they just don't
move very much they're not very active at all and they're called swim up fry at
this point in time and if you look at them they got that big belly on them
yet you can see the big belly on somebody's little fat ones that's what
has to go away for them to be able to actively swim and so those are a day
old they're anywhere from 12 or from 24 hours to one minute old when you shut
the thing that that's the trouble you got to take the median age rather than
because when you when you first close the valve they're a minute old and then
when you are when you first open the valve they're a minute old and then you
let them build for 24 hours so it's summer only a minute old so that's why
we have to see if I can get more aware
well did you get how can we try it one more time I got a couple of good jobs I
doesn't times you okay see what I get over here for numbers I'll just hold
down like that yeah
yeah we'll turn these loose tomorrow
they must like having a picture take it looks good so how many are in this
tank do you think a couple hundred thousand
so we get an extreme look there you can see what I took out and they're
probably is some price swimming so you could turn them loose compiler you
ready ready let me see if I can oh yeah right now they're not gonna respond let
me stir them up a little bit get them moving around here
go back here a second if I can get
awesome thanks yeah you can see how they're they just lay there and collect
along this one rib they're they're really pretty sedentary it if they can
find a nice spot to sit they'll sit
protein foam bait dealers have a heck of a time with protein foam and almost
any big bait dealer will have a a water picture that removes that protein
foam from their water you start building up metabolic byproducts and
they lose a lot of minerals so protein foam is a big deal those big clumps are
collected on the bottom and this is all the stuff that folded up that was where
I got those big bumps out of and all I do is I just stick this down and I start
agitating and sometimes you and you got to kind of break it up and then you just
I keep the I keep the thing is that and I just let them settle on their own for a
bit there we go actually that is really good there are very few very few in
there here that I missed the whole bunch but I don't think this morning and I
just cleaned the some of those again it's collecting on the on the eggshells
from when they hatch yeah you got a really you got to be really careful
about that because it it starts at the bottom and it'll come up through the
entire tank but I'll get out of the way I'm gonna go hook my boat up or hook the
boat up to my truck
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creke My car, still gonna wake off by one car, is spunkles so tired of big horser
I don't know if it's going to be good, but that's where, yeah, it's not about 3 or 4 in the morning
if you're on the fishermen or out there before 5.
And then sometimes, you know, in between the food and the school days, you can't deal with the rest of the fishermen.
What's this going on?
It's going to take 2 days.
I figured out the lock, huh?
Luckily, I don't know where you got that padlock from, because all of our padlocks, all the wallways for the model padlocks are key to light.
I don't know where that one came from, but...
I don't know where that's going to be, but I don't know where that's going to be.
You got to unhook the front.
I will.
Yep.
I get it in the water.
Better do it.
Okay, I'll do it now.
Thank you.
Hello.
Come on, get the car.
Thank you.
Hey.
I was wondering where the key was for that padlock, what we found it.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, you know how that works.
You got a right of a note.
Yeah, I got...
Right now, we got 5 tanks full.
Yeah.
Sure.
Good to go.
All right.
So what we do is we put a siphon hose down in the filter, and then the fun part, you get to suck on this thing and get the siphon going.
All right, come here.
Hold on to that so it doesn't come back up.
I only want to do this once.
Okay.
And I'm not like your dad, I do it sideways.
Come on.
And we siphon as much water out as we can get.
No need messing around with 60 gallon of water.
Once we get it out.
Ooh, can't even react.
Hold on to that valve.
We pull this out of the way because we'll slide it.
We take all this assembly off and we slide the tank out so that we can drain the last of it into a cooler and or buckets.
You want to do it in the buckets or you want to do it in the cooler and haul the cooler over.
You do the cooler.
And I got to move my truck.
Oh, there's the buckets.
No, I'll move my truck.
Okay.
Let's do it.
You got to learn to be more assertive, kid.
Yeah.
You know.
You're all right.
We're only in you are, but so what?
You got the grass.
You got the nice.
The embossed shows up and tells you do something and you say it's not a good idea.
You learn to say no.
Absolutely.
My brother was in the Navy and he was up for promotion.
And the guy that was interviewing said, did you ever lie to a senior officer?
And he says, damn right, I did.
Why did you do it?
He says, because he wasn't qualified to know what he was asking me for.
Sorry.
He's just staying on.
Yeah.
I can't tell you.
I can't tell you're my other Navy story.
Well, let's recite them.
What?
No, you got there.
That big hose.
See, you're only getting, come on, you must have done a bong once or twice in college,
didn't you?
You want to suck in a hose like that?
You got to get an actual growth.
KK.
Oh.
Yeah.
Come on.
You have to chase the jerseys.
That's right.
You get down there.
If you got any kind of bubble left in that thing, it'll lose.
Well, he only scraped the hell out of it once.
Hey, I'll get, babe.
I need to do a lot of it.
The car or the boat?
The boat.
I figured it's pretty good when I have a mirror.
What do they expect to do?
They don't care.
They just...
He was helping.
Especially yelled out.
Those are guys named Bill.
What you got?
Where's the gold hat?
I don't know where that guy is.
It's the gold hat.
Your hooked up to a light or text your test.
Said the first question they asked me, do you ever think about having sex with your mother?
Oh.
God.
He said they went downhill from there.
He said they want to know everything there is to know about you.
Oh.
Oh, oh.
Oh.
Hey.
Oh.
Oh, wow.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our pediatric medicine.
Come here.
SWT.
Oh.
We're staying in Minacua.
We've got to be out in the morning at 7.30
so we can be on the boat with the researchers.
Oh, what's going on?
Greg Sass?
Greg Sass.
He runs the Northern Highlands Research Center.
Great guy.
Yeah.
They do it like if it's fished somewhere
to like one of these southern lakes.
They get the tack all year.
Like whether they can reproduce.
Final one of them.
One of them is working on zestinaba lake.
I don't know.
Yeah, I think that's the walleye.
That's the main one right next to the center.
Right.
Yeah, Greg is a...
He is an amazing speaker.
I mean, he can relate.
I mean, he is up here when it comes to the intellectual undertaking
but when it comes to addressing the crowd.
Brian and I will.
Well, shut that off.
Pull the filters.
Rinse them off in here so they don't heavy fry on them.
You're not going to pull that out.
We'll leave that in.
Do you want to take this in cooler or cooler?
However you...
Well, get the cooler then.
Well, you siph it in first.
You need a micronole.
Not right now.
I got the air manifold.
I didn't know what you did with them.
You fell through the shelf and the counter.
That's why I couldn't find them.
There's a lot of water left in this thing, man.
I know.
I tried.
So...
Oh, that's a tall water.
Yeah, there is.
Let's just try this one more time.
Give it a little more on.
I don't know.
Five and six is good, right?
Bottom.
You want some help in there, Brian?
No, dude.
Put it in here.
Now, wait a minute.
Slow.
Oh, wait a minute.
He's going to turn some water.
He's got a videotape for us.
He's going to go on the other side, Doc.
I don't know.
Your butt's not very photogenic.
I don't even have to be in it.
We're going to go.
Thanks, guys.
We're good.
We really want to put that much water in here.
Oh, I got to watch my language on my tape.
Hey, the...
Right here?
No.
I hope that someone brought them out of here.
The pyrex right here.
Yeah, the pyrex.
The pyrex is right there.
Whatever.
These little guys, dude.
Have you ever found a good place to eat monocular?
I haven't.
That's why I asked.
You want some more?
No, that's enough.
Good.
Yeah.
The monocular.
Oh.
I asked him to take float.
He said he didn't think so.
I don't know.
I think it's pretty clear.
I think we'll be able to find it.
It's not going to fall.
It's deep, though.
Is it?
Probably cold, too.
Really cold.
I dropped my camera out of my pocket up on Lake Monocua.
No.
Get the name of the lake.
It's on the management chain.
I reached down to pull him out and he goes,
Plooch.
Guys, don't worry about it.
He said my kid will come up and find it.
A month and a half later, he called me up and says,
We found it and it still works.
Waterproof.
Wow.
And then I went to a while.
He's for a model banquet in Apple.
Somebody stole it out of my pocket.
What?
Stole it out of my coat pocket.
Oh, my gosh.
I was not happy.
Okay.
Here, replaceable boat building.
Pictures on it.
All my pictures when we built that boat up at Shano.
All gone.
Did you remember working on the engine now?
Yep.
It's mercury.
The cheap suckers, they do exactly what was wrong with it when Tom took it back to the marina.
You know, when you punch the button, you get a big inrush of dirt.
They've got a relay in it that's not big enough to take the inrush current.
They burn up.
But their 2M teeth can go to a different higher quality than rather pay a 4T repair job on it.
It's 5Zs relay.
They do all about it.
The guys are off the water for a couple of weeks.
How far out does that bar come?
Not me.
Unleash the wrong direction.
There's probably right there.
We're passing.
You can go a little further.
We pull a plankton toe out here to see where the biggest concentration of plankton is.
For whatever reason, this side of the lake is the greatest concentration.
You got to do that.
Pardon me?
Do that.
They did it not mean.
It was earlier in the year.
We're good around anywhere in here.
I'll switch it.
I'll switch it to you.
What?
I don't need to do it.
Go right ahead.
I've been sitting in front of this thing.
Way too long already today.
No, that was a good interview though.
Don't put it on the bottom of the tank so your first thing you suck up is dead eggs.
Dad will appreciate it.
The reason we do it that way is so the fish come out horizontally in the water because
the top 18 inches of the water column is the warmest water and that's where the zooplankton
can create.
If you dump them straight down, they get cold shot and they go all the way to the bottom.
This is 70-80 feet.
I don't know how deep it is.
100?
105.
You can't see a little buggers but they're going.
No, but sometimes you can't.
Hold mark.
I went up there today because I needed to go to the bathroom.
You should have a porta potty.
I did.
That's what I used.
There's two by the landing.
Oh, there's one on our drop sites too.
You can see them going into the lake now.
There are?
Oh, yeah.
This tank still wasn't that full.
Not like the next three are going to be crazy.
Mike, my question is, should we leave the boat tied up to the dock that's not in front of the
launch but on one of the other docks?
We don't have to launch it.
Yep.
I got it.
I'm not pulling on this thing now.
You're going to get a lot of eggs right now.
Hey, egg water.
Oh, good.
It's right up top here.
There.
Let's let that settle down a little bit.
Mm-hmm.
I'm going to fry out of there yet or no?
There's more.
Whoa.
There's less suction.
Yep.
There's probably a couple left.
Yeah.
I got something out again.
What?
I hope I don't have it.
You might just put in the hose out of that way.
Yeah.
Can I see it?
It's done.
No, it's done.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Let's see how it's done.
All right.
Let's see how it's done.
All right.
Let's see how it's done.
All right.
Let's see how it's done.
All right.
Let's see how it's done.
We've got five or six minutes now, one and two.
We've stocked.
Do you want to tie up on?
Yeah, go to the west side.
But there's a dock to that direction.
Wow.
I would say the dock is the left.
Oh, I thought you wanted to tie up on one of those.
No, I would tie up what we normally do.
We just do it on the left side of a pier.
What's it going to say on the pier next to you?
That's why.
Let's not get to the smaller pier west of the launch,
just so it's out of their way.
I don't want to block it.
A little pier on the other side.
I see it.
I think she's not going to fair on that side.
There we go.
You don't mean that one.
Not that one.
Oh, haven't they done work?
This is happening right now.
We're going back there.