I have a 1/20th acre forage pond that originally had FHM and RES in it. I used it to raise the two fish for stocking in my other ponds. A couple years in I added a couple dozen GS from a bait shop. The first year I had a mix of GS fry and FHM. Then the FHM went by the wayside and were extirpated. Don't know if it was the GS eating the FHM eggs or the RES eating the FHM's, but at any rate the GS became the dominant forage fish.

I pulled lots and lots of GS out of that pond for the next couple years (and the RES did quite well at producing fingerlings in that time too).

Just my experience with GS. I'm back to only FHM in that pond again right now after eliminating the remaining population of GS and RES.

John

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