Mr. Grimes hit the nail on the head when he says that YOUR MONY IS BETTER SPENT ON BLUEGILL THAN ON FATHEADS.
You read that if you stock fatheads they will probly be gone eventually but, when you have a lake full of hungry bass larger than even a few inches "eventually" is a matter of days or even hours for that matter.
Please, learn from my mistake. Last summer (while I was still severly new at lake management) I was appauled to discover that my recently purcased pond contained no minnows. So a few hundred dollars later 7000 minnows swam from plastic bags into my favorite liquid toy. "That should do it." I say "minnows are so prolific the bass couldn't possibly eat enugh to keep up with their spawning" WRONG! And even though there was plenty of other forrage fish to chose from, two days later was the last time I saw in minnow in there. Considering that minnows weigh about 1 Lb. per 1000 and bass gain 1 lb. for every 10 Lbs. they eat I added about 1 ounce of total bass weight PER ACRE.
So did I regret thinking minnows might produce any noticable difference in an established bass pond? You better believe it.
