Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain catching wild F W Shrimp

I thought I would pass on my experience on my first fresh water shrimp catching day. It's been nice weather all week so I took off to Caddo Lake (Texas Louisiana border lake) I think it may be only natural lake in Texas. Pretty much a cypress tree swamp kind of lake. Since the lake is loaded with lilly pads and cypress trees and such, I thought it would be a good place to see what I might scoop up with a fine mesh long handled net. After getting to an area where I thought they might be, I put my net in the water and on the first pass of the net, I had one FW Shrimp. It was about 1" long and maybe a 1/8" wide. It jumped around in the net so it caught my eye. I was excited to say the least. First trip and first pass with the net. I tried for another couple of hrs and finished the day with just 4 shrimp and one 1" crawfish. All of them went into the new pond. It was not as successful as I had hoped but I scored And I am going back today. I don't have any idea if I can start or even keep some shrimp and craws going with such small contributions to the pond but I am looking forward to this day of foraging new stockers.
Tracy