On the topic of goldfish...

In the spring of this year I released about a dozen of them.. none over 3 inches long in order to assist in control of Chara. (I did a few tests in some aquariums and found that they gobbled it up like mad).
Today I pulled out a minnow trap I put in yesterday to get a sampling of my forage situation... and much to my surprise I pulled out 1- 5" chub, 1 3" shiner.... and about 50 2-3" Drab Goldfish!!! .. and one gold ... goldfish. I didn't think the dozen would have survived predation let alone had a successful spawn... but it would appear they did. And if the growth rates mean anything either my bass and other predators will have a ton to eat and get big fast... or the potentially thousands of goldfish will overpopulate.. time will tell.

Guess I better see if my local pet store needs any fish. : )

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