Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Threadfin shad or Gizzard shad?

Thanks Eric for the info on the shad. My biggest concern in doing this is letting some gizzards slip through my culling out the gizzards. But after looking at the shad I captured I think it is pretty easy to tell the difference in the two species. If I can get this done, I would go through the culling twice before I added any TFS to the pond. Another thing is the process of netting up the shad, culling, transfer and then adding the TFS to the pond might be a slow process and take a couple of weeks before I would have a hundred or so gathered up. It would be better if I could run my sein and captured more, but I've not figured how to do that in a lake where the shoreline is mostly Cypress trees. On the positive note, it looks like the majority of the lmb I have now are smaller where low numbers of TFS additions might survive and there is still alot of vegetation for cover. I might not get any of this done but I have not given up yet.