Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Gshiners & Gshad

JW - Ewest and I were working on answers at the same time. He types faster than I do.

I think Gshiners will survive just fine in your winters. Although it may be hard getting them established in a pond that already has a normal bass population. Difficult task. The bigger size of Gshiner you stock the better the chance of survival. Another thing that will help their survival in your pond is if you have a healthy weed population when they are stocked.

Gshad should also survive most of your winters. Occassional or periodic deaths may occur in winter. Factors to improve their winter survival are deeper maximum pond depth and larger surface area. Again stocking the larger sizes of shad will help improve chance of their survival until they can spawn. Gshad will easily grow to 12"-14" long.
G.shad & Gshiner are used most often to help diversify the forage base for predators. Generally the higher the forage fish diversity the better the bass grow.

One of the several reasons that bgill are most often used is that they are good panfish, readily bite, and are good eating. Gshad and Gshiners are not as good to eat.