Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Contemplating adding Golden Shiners

After reading the numerous post on GS, I began to contemplate adding them in my pond. It is currently stocked with 1600 BG/REDEARS, 130 LMB, 150 Channel cats. The bream and channels are 1.5 year old and were put in as 1"-3" fingerlings. The bass are around a year old and were put in at 2"-3" fingerlings. I currently have bass ranging from 9" - 12+" (most in the 10-12 range. Wide range on the bream, but many are fat and hand sized. The cats are 1-2 pounds at most. The pond is 1.5 acres, aerated, fertilized, and fed daily most months. My goal would be to add a few GS to provide some larger forage for the LMB... heck, they probably get a bit tired of eating bream all the time anyway...
Any advice? And if I should, does anyone know of a supplier for GS that could service me down here in coastal South Carolina?

Sarc

i have gs in my 5 acre pond,not aware of any problems with them.kids do catch them sometimes on small bream hooks while bream fishing,most seem to be about 3-4 inches long.i think you can get them at american sport fish in alabama.

Look into GS habit of eating BG eggs. I dont know how many you were wanting to stock or the size of your lake but I think I would reccomend shad to supplement Bass before I would stock GS.

I stocked GS a full year before my BG went into the pond. They did very well and still (after 3 years) probably total more biomass than any other species. But they have not eaten enough eggs to prevent the BG from reproducing copiously. Seine hauls last year had huge numbers of BG fingerlings, in spite of GS adults outnumbering BG adoults by a large margin.

I think GS make good forage for LMB. They will eat as much fish food as the predators will let them get away with, and convert it into swimming snacks for your bass.

If I were going to purposely stock GS then I would also put in some Hybred BG (Georga Giants) just for the thrill of catching those huge panfish! After all the major consern for not stocking Hybred BG is that they eventually revert back to GS.

I was assuming Sarchasm was contemplating adding Golden Shiners; I did not think about GS standing for Green Sunfish. SO...

1. Sarc: Did you mean Golden Shiners or Green Sunfish?

2. For the learned elders of the Forum (who won't let Northerners call Hybrid Striped Bass "Wipers" or Southerners call Bluegill "Perch"): is GS the acronym for Golden Shiners or Green Sunfish? Or do we need new acronyms for both of them?

This is potentially the biggest semantics problem here since the "Flathead Minnow" (grows to 300 lbs., usually eliminated by LMB within 2 or 3 years, unless it eats everything else in the pond first).

Theo you crack me up!