Ha, I just sent a photo two days ago to a friend showing him what type of hut I use for darkhouse spearing. It was a Sevena pic back in the Boom Time days. Wayne, Fred, and my huts in the foreground and your plywood box in the background where I had my Rokon parked on your smooth ice. I still am threatening to make up a slush strainer like you were using. Sure saves time getting the last little of the crystals out of the water.
Yep, since the big pike decline I've got so many egg shells accumulated that I could spear for five years and not run out. ADFG is making plans to Rotenone Stormy Lake maybe next year to eliminate those pike. This year they were catching as many Char as they could with the plans to breed them in the hatchery and use the brood stock and fry for restocking that exact genetic strain of char back in the lake. Their problem this fall was they had a dozen or so females in the pen but not a single male char. Of course there are suckers, sculpins, sticklebacks and coho fry that need to be replaced in the lake to balance it out again too. Not to mention the freshwater clams too. Hopefully they will consider those species if they go through with the plan. Apparently there is now a neutralizer they can add to the outlet stream that deactivates the rotenone immediately so there is no chance of incidental kill downstream and in Swanson River.