Your musky will eat more YP and walleye than shad due mainly to the niche of each fish and what fish the musky most frequently encounters which usually is not a pelagic species.
I second adding golden shiners and even lake chubsuckers. Do sampling by trapping and seining of minnows in local lakes and streams and select the minnow and shiner species that I mentioned previously. All that have been mentioned will provide a very good diverse forage base. A strong YP population in itself with numerous individuals 8"-11" should provide enough forage to get walleye from 24" category to the 28"-30" category. Lake chubsuckers in addition will improve the chances of numbers of 28"+ WE. Using a slot harvest limit will do a lot to protect and produce walleye bigger than 23". Harvest smaller ones release larger ones and this skews the population toward larger individuals. For a 300 ac fishery, building a few small 1/2 ponds to rear special beneficial forage species not commonally available is a very good investment.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 06/11/14 08:40 PM.
