You Know I think it was Zach that had the 30 acre lake that was "chalked thick" full of threadfin shad..He said the blues were about 8 lbs in 18 months! and the channels were half that size at only 4 lbs.
You mentioned that the blues probebly eat the fathead minows.
It really sounds to me that blues have very different feeding habbits from channels. I have heard that they were very similar to stripers! (not Hybrids)..Newbee you told me before in an earlier post that you caught blues on artificel bait as if you were fish for bass..right?
I wonder if you and newbee were to creat a heavy forage base of ethier bream or shad..and see if this does not improve your growth rate of the blues. It would be real interesting...