Our Redears seem to be a lot more competitive that what I read on this board. The smaller ones are usually caught on worms, same as bgill, but fished deeper. The ones that are "hand size" or larger, always prefer golden shiners. Shiners are the only way to catch the big ones. Which makes me wonder, why are most stocking rates for RE so high when they seem to compete with Bass for forage ? And why is RE competition with Bass for similar forage never mentioned ?
