I am the fish manager and I'm not completely ruling out gizzard shad but my purpose of asking on here is to get advice from people who have worked with this shad as we do not have many (approx 2) systems with them. I'm not worried too much about bait bucket stocking you have to walk over a mile through woods to sneak in. We will be very careful with our own bait as well. I really like that suggestion. Just to clear things up a little my pond is still in construction and we are building it from scratch. and nothing is stocked yet. We have a good damn and some water but we are doing habitat work right now. I'm also doing due dillegence on what goes in so I don't mess up and add the wrong thing. I do have concerns that with very low harvest and landowners high expectations we need a lot of prey fish to avoid stunting. Harvest will be from a single land owner, his guests, and terminally I'll kids. Keep the help coming and we shall see about the fishing later.
