O.k. guys what's your opinion on this? I have asked some very knowledgeable people and gotten conflicting opinions.

I have a pair of mallards that are showing up now and them on one of my 1/10th acre holding ponds in the back. I just planted it with 16 lbs. of fatheads that I am holding over about 50 large yellow perch until live pick up. Now I know mallards are considered a "puddle duck" and esentially herbivores, but I have to wonder if with the limited vegetation along the edges the fatheads are hiding in, if the mallards would pick off some of the fatheads.

I've been told by two very knowledgeable gentlemen not to worry about it, but one very knowledgeable fish farmer tells me they will pick off fatheads.

What do you think? Remember the water is quite cold and the fatheads may be moving even slower than normal and in dense schools.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.