I just got a couple dozen from a local convienience store that sold bait. I looked them over and they seemed to be lively and healthy. I suppose a person could run into problems if he got some diseased fish or something but mine seemed to do fine.
Put a dozen in my 3 acre pond and a dozen in my 1/20th acre forage pond. Caught one later on hook in main pond at 6" but can't say I ever saw much of them. Likely LMB eventually got them. But in my forage pond a different story. First year FHM in that pond went gangbusters (RES, FHM and GSH in this pond). Would catch a GSH in a trap once in a while. This year the reverse. Rarely catch a FHM but can get lots and lots of smaller GSH in a minnow trap.
I hope the small ones go over the overflow pipe into the main pond during larger rain events and populate or supplement the main pond.
Last edited by snrub; 08/03/16 10:08 AM.
