Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Shiners GOOD or BAD??

JD - You don't really tell us how many, what size bass and what type they are (LMB, SMB) in your pond. The only way that I forseee golden shiners causing problems for bass is if they some how become overly abundant for only a few medium-small bass in the pond. In this case overabundant shiners may prevent successful bass spawns by eating all the bass eggs from only a few vulnerable openly exposed bass nests. Thus no eggs would make it to hatch time. This would happen only in exceptional cases.

Each LMB once 10" long would eat lots and lots of shiners per each growing season. Number of shiners consumed would depend on size of shiners (200-1000 shiners/yr/bass). Your main problem in your small pond I think will be for you to maintain enough shiners in the pond after the bass get to 10"-12".