With lots of pages on the forum. There seems to be a trend of ponds or lakes with too little forage. Can the opposite be true? You've created the picture perfect large pond with diverse structures and plenty of cover. You have a established % of large bass. You have stock bluegills and tilapia from grow out ponds. You have a semi heavy quality feed being delivered. Your stocking spring and fall loads of crayfish. Trout annually stocked in the winter. You have a established minnow base. You decide you want to give gizzard shad a try. By the books it says you have the right % of large LMB to keep recruiting down of GSHD.
What happens after stocking? I can understand that the GSHD may have negative effects on BG recruitment. Does it reach a point which the LMB have too much forage and the pond would go out of balance not because the size of the bass are not the issue, but the amounts of diverse forage causes the pond to because Shad heavy?
