Quote Originally Posted by nitro929 View Post
When bass are babies they
eat what shad eat plankton. Shad over compete with the bass bluegill crappie fry. So you have a high death rate in your classes of fish or they are stunned. Southern Indiana's winters do not usually cause a very high rate in shad kills so the DNR stock lakes with a high population of shad with walleyes stripers and hybrids to help control the population . so I have been told I am no biologist.
IDNR does try to stock fish that will help control the shad population. I'm talking about gizzard shad not threadfin shad. I only wish that our waters stayed warm enough to keep threadfin shad in our waters. Threadfin shad are a god send for the fisheries down south there they survive the winters. They grow smaller and are a great forage fish for crappie and bass and other larger sport fish.