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#451219 07/05/16 11:25 AM
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I stocked my 5 acre lake last year with bream and bass.
This year I added Hybrid strippers and talipia.
I feed about 200 pounds a month total from 3 feeders.
This weekend we fished it with the grandkids and caught a bunch of bream around a pound each and just butterball fat.
They caught a few bass around 14" that we not as fat as I would have hope.

They also caught a bunch of green sun fish that came from somewhere on their own.

I had planned this month to add Shad but now Im worried that these green sun fish will wipe them out before they get a chance to get started.
I hate to spend $1,200.00 and just feed fish that I really dont want in my pond to begin with.

I hope as the HSB and F1s get bigger they will clean the green fish out


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Do you have pics ?

Not sure you need both TShad and tilapia at this point. GSF should not wipe out shad but LMB and HSB may.
















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More than likely the GSF came with the stocked bluegills. I don't see the problem. They only spawn annually and can't keep up with BG and their rolling spawns. Being more fusiform than other sunfish, they are a preferred forage for bass and HSB.

I have a small forage pond that has both GSF and BG and no predators. When I seine to add forage to the bigger pond, I don't hesitate to toss the GSF into it. I very rarely catch one.


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