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Are Gizzard shad a good forage species to add to a pond?
I could get hundreds of them about two inches long free.
I know the adults get about a foot long but the young could be good food for predator fish. Any downside to adding them, over population, make water dirty, winter kill, just not good forage fish?
Any upside to adding them?
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No upside to them up here. At least not in my book. You need some really large predators in there to control their population. They grow to a size that is too large for most of the predatory fish up here way too quickly.
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And Gizzard Shad spawning is suppressed when a pond is full of big adults.
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I think you could make it work in a large BOW (probably 5+ acres) with adequate number of large predators (5-6+ pound LMB or Pike/Musky maybe) but it could potentially be a costly experiment and I think with anything less than that would be almost guaranteed to fail.
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