Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Threadfins

I've had threadfins stocked the last 2 springs............and until a few days ago I assumed they were an expensive snack. I was paddling about the pond just before dusk ,when I sighted what appaered to be a school of shad on the surface. They appeared to be just mouthing the surface like little dippling..........can anyone confirm this is how thread fins feed and should I expect their population to flurish now that they have survived and reproduced despite the 14-16 inch LMB ?

TShad are plankton feeders and are pelagic (open water ) feeders in schools. If a population survives to next spring you may have established an on going population ( absent real cold winter water temps.( 42 ) or the LMB eating them all) Here are 2 links with info.

http://srac.tamu.edu/tmppdfs/11830457-140fs.pdf

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1606

Thanks Ewest

How can you not trust in a source that states the threadfin ph range is 0-32.3? :rolleyes:

Errors in input are common esp. if you are typing in info from : ( 29300 Species, 217200 Common names, 41500 Pictures,
38200 References, 1340 Collaborators, 20 million Hits/month ) and different languages. :p

I have enough trouble with 26 letters and 10 digits, not to mention all those #&*@#%! punctuation marks.

Good news on the threadfin shad front...........cleaned a bass this weekend at my pond and discovered a 4 inch thread fin in his belly so odds are in my favor that I've got a healthy population!!!!!!!! The downside is that HB haen't really grown much perhaps LMB are a better preditor in my pond. I plan to start a feed program soon, but have my concerns about low water in my pond.