I read in thein PB or SP that a shiner population is likely to be decimated if bass are already present. Is this because the farm raised shiners are not able to escape bass as easy as wild shiners?
The reason I ask is, when I was young I fished for shiners in at a boy scout camo and caught ones that were up to 12" long. The lake I caught them in had a large bass and pickeral population. The lake had alot of shallow weed cover for the shiners and in my opinion that is why the shiner population thrives there. My next question is if you want to esablish a thriving shiner popualation with bass already present, should you stock wild shiners as well?