I recently built a 1 acre nursery pond to grown golden shiners (and possibly blue gill) next to my 10 acre trophy LM bass pond. My question is what size of GS fish should I move to my bass lake? I’m trying to feed my bass but also get a population established in my 10 acre pond? Should I regularly move all the fry and small golden shiners to the big lake while leaving some of the largest to reproduce, or should I move the largest in hopes they survive and leave the smallest in the nursery until they’re bigger to avoid being eaten by the large population of 8” & under LMB?
I’m needing to buy a seine and trying to decide on what opening diameter of netting to buy. I’ll attach a guide the seine company provided for reference and size options.
I also have a feeder set up on the nursery pond. Is there a certain (Cargill) Triton feed that would be best to get the shiners to grown the fastest in my nursery? I’m in central Missouri and also have several feeders set up on my other fishing lakes. I’ve always used optimal blue gill, so not sure on which Triton feed to use for my blue gill in my other ponds yet.
