Golden Shiner is simply THE best eating experience available in ponds. For those of you who may doubt me, I invite you to stop by and catch a couple hundred pounds worth out of my pond, take 'em home and prove me right (or wrong, remove 200 lbs of GShiners from my pond and I won't care).

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Walleye, YP, and BG I know ALL taste wonderful. Crappie I have not eaten in maybe 35 years, but I am prepared to add them to the above list based on public acclaim. Due to their respective sutiability in small ponds run by non-expert pondmeisters (I like to think I qualify as a non-expert), I would apply the following rankings:
1. BG
2. YP
3. Walleye
4. (Black) Crappie