Thank you Guv. As usual you hit the nail on the head !

Walt you are not the first reader to draw that conclusion about the Nutt article. He is talking about only a Trophy Bass lake. That is not the impression many readers come away with however.

In fairness K. Nutt is an outstanding fisheries scientist and pond mgt is his business. He has seen and worked on 10 times as many ponds as all of the posters on this thread combined. I believe the purpose of the article was to remind us that GShad are a tool and as Walt said " I believe 100% that gizzard shad can help a pond owner who cares about nothing but trophy bass, grow larger bass than he could without the gizzard, and for that reason, I think they have a place in pond management." I would add with the right use of the tool (GShad) at the right time. I think K. Nutt's info on the SEP website in the second link above (bottom of pg 1 of link) clears that up.



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