Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Fin Clip?

FIH, for fish that size, floy tags will work. It's the smaller fish that have problems with them - the tag is too large in relation to the size of the fish.

I like the numbered floy tags because you can track individual fish if you want to see how specific fish are growing.

I'll fin clip if I'm just wanting to distinguish certain year classes or certain stocking "classes".

I'll use non-numbered floy tags if a client wants to keep tabs on certain fish when they come to the feeder, but doesn't need to keep data on individual fish. Say stocking 2# feed trained LMB in a pond with adult LMB in it, and he wants to see if the stocked FT LMB "teach" the resident adult LMB to eat pellets.

One isn't better than the other per se, but each method is better in certain circumstances.