Your fish raising efforts will be helpful to others who are interested in raising some alternative shiners species. The common shiner gets pretty large and bigger than YP can eat. They will be a good forage fish in your YP pond. Their disadvantage is the large ones 5"-6" will be bothersome when using small live baits to catch the perch.

Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/02/13 08:13 PM.

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