Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Texas Hunter Feeder Time

I am feeding Optimal Bluegill feed from my TH feeder. It runs 16 seconds twice in the morning and twice in the evening.

The surface of the water boils as long as the feeder is running but they stop as soon as the feeder finishes dispersing.

I thought the rule of thumb was to put out enough feed that would keep them busy for ~ 10 minutes. I don’t think I could make that happen but want to ask the experts here.

Turn up the feed time….to what?

Leave it where it is?

Actually it is better to not do much fishing when the water is above 85F, except maybe for the CNBG. Real warm water does not have as much DO at 100% saturation compared to water at 70F. 84F=8ppm@100%, 70F=9ppm100% saturation. It is better to have a higher DO concentration in water that is cooler when catching prize trophy fish because higher DOs improves their chance of recuperation and survival after release.

If you are trying to grow large bass and feed less fish food to get "best" utilization of the food to produce ample forage for growing larger sizes of bass, I would be harvesting numerous bluegill greater than 8". The largest bass IMO will not be focusing on eating BG a lot bigger than 8". BG larger than 8" will be eating more pellets compared to BG 3"-6" long who are the target prey sizes for larger bass. I think harvesting 'good' numbers of the 8" long BG will still allow plenty of BG numbers in the 7"-8" sizes for the few or the low number of 9lb - 10+ lb bass that will be present in a 5 ac pond. I think that 9lb-10lb bass are probably eating as many small 8"-11" LMbass as the numbers of BG 8"+ long eaten per year. I don't know if there is any proof of this, it is just my educated opinion.

If you were a big old lazy momma LMB and you had to swallow all your food whole and no shewing possible,,, what would you rather swallow - a 4"BG or a 6" bass, a 5" BG or a 8" bass? or a 6" BG or a 10" bass. All have the same body depth in each category while the bass has more body weight than the BG. Make my meals to be slender bodied bass when they are readily available. More meal size for the same amount of capture effort for a big ol' lazy bass.