I know other posters have tried to hint at this but I am just too curious: How can threadfin shad be too abundant and what would that abundance have to do with bluegill?
It seems to me like over-abundant threadfin means your bass and bluegill are feasting and loving life! We constantly hear about pond owners who have stunted bass growth and not enough forage, I have never seen someone say that they have TOO much fusiform food for their predators. I'm not saying it's impossible, I have just never heard of another occurence and I am dying for more details!
Would stocking more bluegill or bass be an option? Bluegill and Largemouth have very high ferucundity (sp) and are far more likely to require harvesting than supplemental stocking. If more bluegill are needed this seems to me like the best way to do it.
Could it be that your largemouth are so big from gorging on the threadfin that they have also dented the population of large brood-stock bluegill? If so I don't think removing some shad will do anything other than starve your bass. If the largemouth are putting that kind of a hurt on your bluegill population then you might have the perfect pond for Gizzard Shad to be introduced! Either way I am jealous!!
Last edited by RockvilleMDAngler; 10/26/12 12:22 PM.
