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I've seen Golden Shiners 5" long have eggs, so even smaller ones will reproduce.
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Bobby, thank for that picture. My minnow nets produced a few minnows like what was in your picture and I was thinking GSH as none of my FHM stocked this spring made it as far as i could tell. The minnows in my traps look like the ones in your picture above so they are GSH minnows. Good to see some young are 'recruiting'.
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Now the question is, are those big shiners actually reproducing. The ovarian parasite seems to be a wide spread issue with GSH when they get big. Especially when coming from hatchery source it seems. Sure is kind of a shame to think those big GSH females should be egg factories and they might not actually be. In my case that might actually be an advantage. I have been somewhat hesitant about the GSH in my pond. I really do not want them to get too well established. Since my goal is a pan fish pond (as opposed to trophy anything, with any accidental trophy's preferred to be RES or BG) the GS are probably not even perhaps a desired fish. But I have them. So for me, if I raise a few in my forage pond, transfer some each year to the main pond, and they spawn once, that might be just about right for me. Have a few of them in the pond for a diversity of forage, but not the risk of them getting out of hand. But I may be thinking all wrong.
John
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