Travis, have you seen them stay feed trained once in a pond?
I've only done it with a couple dozen bass and of those only about half were released into an earthen pond. It was only a 1/4 acre and devoid of forage so they stayed on the pellets quite easily. The others were kept in small lined back yard ponds and stayed on pellets as well.
I am pondering feed training my own SMB if I cannot find feed trained SMB locally. They will go into a 0.4 acre pond so we will see how that goes.
