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are less than 10 inches long.
They are also an important forage fish for walleye and almost all game fish will eat them.
Fatheads only grow to about 3-1/2 inches in length and only live for about 2 years here in the north.
They are prolific and reproduce fast.
If you have a pond that is approximately 1 acre in size that had no fish in it and stocked 20 pounds of fatheads, by the end of 1 year you would have approximately 400 pounds of fatheads.
This is why the fathead is such an important forage species.
Fatheads lay their eggs upside-down. They will lay their eggs on the bottom side of a lily pad. We recommend stacking pallets in shallow water - 3 per stack would suffice. Use rocks to weigh the pallets down. These make excellent breeding places for fatheads.
Where there are fatheads - mosquitos do not exist.