Top is a grass shrimp, bottom one eludes me, looks like a topminnow or mudminnow species but Cody can ID for sure. Both are encouraging signs for your forage base, congrats!
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Awesome, thanks. I didnt know grass shrimp lived down here. This is the first year in about 7 years that my pond isnt chocolate milk so I've been seeing a lot of interesting things.
That's pretty dang cool, that's the first of it's kind I've ever seen posted on the forum. Thank you for sharing with us...we're always looking to create new science and alternative forage sources fascinate me and others.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau
mudminnows are freshwater and are found all through the US including texas. This looks like one of these species to me. In MI we usually see the central mudminnow
Good deal, I'll give that a try, currently I'm working 7-12's on nights till about june... so maybe one day. It sure is nice to talk about my pond to people who actually give a crap about it , I've tried talking to my wife, friends, kids...my dogs, nobodies interested lol
I dumped about 800 lbs of hydrated lime in there and about 1000 lbs of ag lime . Killed everything in there as far as I could tell. It was full of mudcats and huge gizzard shad. It almost immediately cleared up. I also fenced it off from cattle which of course helped considerably. About a month after I shocked it it turned a nice green color and I started stocking it. The minnows and shrimp showed up themselves
Dkpepper's fish does look like the common live bait often called "mud minnow", "chubs"; or "cigar minnow" or "bull minnow" technically called the Gulf Killifish Fundulus grandis. This fish has a wide range of body coloration and patterns. A better picture showing fins would help verify the name. It is it a Gulf killifish it will get to be 7" long and be a good pond forage fish. The other fish it could be is the golden topminnow technical name Fundulus chrysotus.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/17/2008:39 PM.
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