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My bass are feeding on pellets.
I noticed something strange about 4 months ago.
When I would feed in the evenings, the bream would come and my water is so clear I can see them coming up for the food.
Im watching and all of a sudden a bass. The bass comes up and instead of hitting just one pellet like the bream, he tries to get as many pellets as he can in one gulp.
I just saw one doing this.
Now , all of a sudden, 20 bass or more in the evening are coming up and tearing that stuff up.sometimes they hit it so hard they knock smaller bream 3 feet in the air.
There is no shortage of bream for the bass to eat, so im wondering whats going on.
Unless, there IS a shortage of bream. That's what im worried about.
Bass will indeed wipe everything out. I noticed toward the end of the year when I was feeding , that I didnt have near as many small bream coming up for the pellets. I think I need a coppernose spawn in there soon.
Im sure the bass have wiped out the crawfish I put in there last year.
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The LMB in my pond will do the same thing when feeding smaller pellets. They will not eat one single pellet, they will target a clump of pellets.
It all boils down to energy in vs. energy expended.
If there aren't sufficient forage fish in the pond of the size that the LMB need to eat, that could be the reason why. Or, they could have realized that they can get more food for less energy expended too.
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Yep, our LMB have learned to target pellet clumps also.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.
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Had a bass once swallow 21 in a row. I counted them. Funny part was toward the end she really slowed down and seemed to have trouble staying upright.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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