"The lower numbers of all species should actually benefit the lake's recovery."

This ^^^ Especially for the re-growth of larger fish. If I was in charge of LFF, I would stock a zillion shad in there to fatten every fish up.

I vote they stock Reds in lake arlington! Plenty deep, power plant, plenty of forage, and would give that lake some nice publicity.

TPW hasn't stocked that pond in what seems like decades

To whom it may concern:I asked a guy that same question once & here is how it goes. MIGRATORY BIRDS. Nature uses them to restock ponds .They step in beds or nest of different species of fish and the eggs stick to their feet. When they are done resting there they fly off to another water source and when they stop at different ponds to rest and drink the eggs are transplanted here and there.

I think they also come out of ponds in the watershed that flood over their spillway during hard rains. That overflow winds up in a creek somewhere. Fairfield has 2 creeks running into it. All the fish in the lake did not die in that last major fish kill anyway - just a large percentage of them. Any that were up in the creeks most likely survived that kill and there were areas up in a couple of coves that the dissolved oxygen did not drop to lethal levels. Any fish that managed to get into those areas before they died would have survived as well as the fish that were already in those spots before the oxygen started dropping.

edit> the above is not about redfish which was the thread topic. I expect a very large % of the redfish were killed during that die off. Their home turf is mostly main lake and and that whole area went deadly with very low oxygen. The few that survived were lucky to be checking out something away from the dead zone when it happened. My message is referring to other types of fish - bass, crappie, bluegill, catfish, etc. that commonly live in most lakes and ponds.

Any recent report from Fairfield on any species?