Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
For a healthy smallie pond I think the larger individuals of golden shiner will be the best shiner to flourish and persist.


Bill, why is that? Is that because the Golden Shiners, at "middle age" adult size would be too big for the SMB to eat unless they (the SMB) are exceptionally large and that leaves a sizeable GSH brood population in the pond?

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