Use your cage this year for some GS and BG. See what happens. Maybe just leave shiners in long enough to see if they live and becomed trained to pellets. Check with the hatchery to see if shiners are raised there of imported. If raised there ask if you could get some of the larger breeders. Or find out when delivery arrives and get some really fresh ones.
It sounds like you have ample shoreline shallow depth (0-2ft) vegetation but how about submerged plants that form deeper under water weed beds? What are the deep dwelling species?
Last edited by Bill Cody; 04/01/09 08:39 PM.