Students in John Prow’s STEM fishing class at St. Cloud Middle School have hooked another opportunity to work with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The class embarked on a study in partnership with FWC last year to determine whether bass from areas with little to no fishing pressure are easier to catch than those from heavily fished lakes like Lake Tohopekaliga.
Through electrofishing, FWC employees gathered educated fish from Lake Toho and uneducated fish from a strictly off-limit pond at Orlando International Airport. Microwire tags were inserted into the fish, and they were relocated to the SCMS pond…