Don,
What about holding off on aerating until a solid ice layer has formed on the lake, then have the aerators run on a timer, say 2hrs on, two off, or whatever would be necessary per water body. Most likely, enough air would be there on smaller lakes (Ironside, Fiesta etc). Not sure about "larger" waters like Swan, Muir, or Beaver. Even run aerators like hell for 2 weeks before ice will reasonably form (last two weeks of Oct let's say) to saturate the water with O2.
This is what we get for turning decrepid left over sloughs into our best trout lakes... yikes.
I've said all along, waters that over winter should have a 2 fish over 16" limit (with a few c and r, Bait ban, no ice fishing ones) with the wintetkill ponds being 8 fish per day to split the difference with the guys who want to keep fish. Fair all around.
But back on point, consider my above idea...
Nick
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