Over the past three years or so, I've added in excess of 300lbs. of golden shiners into my pond. The pond is 6-7 acres and had/has good existing LMB populations as well as Black Crappie, Bullheads, Bluegills, and Yellow Perch. During these past few years I've also added more LBM and SMB in good quantities, as well as Yellow Perch, Bluegill, HSB, and Channel Cats in lesser quantities.
During these same years, I've also put in more than 500lbs of fatheads.
I've also always had substantial submerged weed growth, but not so much that you couldn't use a trolling motor without getting spun up with weeds. Last year, I had basic pond weed out of control, so much so that you couldn't get across 4.5 acres of my lake with a trolling moter; only oars would work.
These past few weeks, when I threw out some feed, the majority of what was coming up and hitting it were Golden Shiners. They seem to be just coming up from the bottom in 4-6' of water.
Yesterday, I threw out some feed, and there were easily thousands of Golden Shiners (3" to 6"+ long) hitting the feed in a roughly 20' x 20' area.
Only everyonce in a while, you would see several hundred shiners try to fly.
Water temps were only about 57 degrees, so I'm waiting for some warmer weather to get the SMB and LMB more active, and then to throw out some feed and observe the massacre & brutality.
Anyways, that's what half of me thinks.
The other half thinks I may be the second member in Theo's "I Think I May Have Way Too Many Golden Shiners" Club.
