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Cecil, for me a pond is for sport fishing ....period!!!  Like Eric says.."Its about management ! Each to his/her on liking." I want to grow my fish as fat as I can and quick as I can. When I can go to our ponds and catch numbers of trophy size CNBG and a 4 or 5 lb HSB each trip, it don't get any better than this. Yeah, I overfeed at times but manage with tilapia and "state of art" aeration systems but can't control drought shrinkage water body but have a blast with my flies... Never eat my pets and not a "aint that pretty pond" guy - strictly sport fishing for me..... Cull a lot of fish to little pond tho...  By the way, just switched to Cargill feed - Texas Hunter feeder won't handle those big AQMX 600 pellets - Overton checked feeder - spin plate on max setting. G/
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have to ask this and please don't take it the wrong way. For those of you that are putting a few hundred dollars worth of feed a month into your ponds is it really necessary? How many pounds of fish do you need in your ponds? Do you really need to to feed and catch a few thousand pounds of fish every month, and do you even have time to do it even with the help of family and friends?
I just moved temporarily to a holding pond about 350 trophy size yellow perch, over 100 trophy size bluegills, and have had up to a 100 or so adult feed trained smallmouth in my .62 acre pond, and I feed at the most two bags off feed a month. I wouldn't even have this many fish in the pond if it wasn't for the fact that I sell them. I also only feed once per day vs. the recommended twice per day and my fish are still too fat!
Pumping in large amount of feed has its downsides too, as in increase filamentous algae and macrophypte production.
Just saying and I hope I'm not going to make someone mad, but we sometimes have a tendency to do things in excess an I'm definitely guilty of that. Fortunately budget constraints have caused me to take hard look at where I'm doing things in excess and I'm cutting back.
I too go through about 2 bags in about a month in a half actually. So I am spending a little over 300 bucks over the whole feeding season which stops for me about mid October or so. Course if you have a larger pond with multi feeders in place I could see where it could add up quick!! RC
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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Its about management ! Each to his/her on liking. From my perspective its called Supplemental Feeding. We don't do aquaculture but others do. Who am I to tell them they are wrong. A good discussion though. It really does "all depend" on the situation on the ground/pond and ones goals. I will say each of us needs to understand all the +s and -s and make up their own mind. Absolutely and I didn't want to imply aquaculture or my way is the right way or whatever. I just think it's easy to get caught up in the feeding and before you know you've got a monkey on your back.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Or expensive fatty livers. But you could also end up with very nicely conditioned 125 RW fish to catch , sell , take pics of and be proud of (it's not bragging if you can do it) !
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Or maybe even a fish or two with Wr over 150%........and I feed once a day, by hand.
"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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sprkplug you don't have fish you have pigs/hogs ! 
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.......I'd spoon feed em' if I thought it would help!
"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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Shipping costs due to increased fuel costs are hurting a lot of businesses in this country. Not much we can do about it though. Other than keeping a certain "group" of money/tax grubbing folks out of a job....
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Shipping costs due to increased fuel costs are hurting a lot of businesses in this country. Not much we can do about it though. Other than keeping a certain "group" of money/tax grubbing folks out of a job.... I think that you will find, when it comes to money/tax grubbing, the "group" list is exhaustively extensive!
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George,
Let me know how your bluegills like the cargill feed or if you notice any difference at all in feed activity from the switch....
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No change in normal feeding activity Nate, but they have been off and on with these big temperature swings.
Just ran out of Cargill so will be back on AQMX this order - they better have the 600 regular size this time!
G/
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George my last AM 600 purchase was back to normal. You should be ok. Still hand feeding the old big stuff.
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I sure hope so Eric - loyal Purina AQMX customer for all these years and they pull a stunt like this in peak feeding season and no one to hand feed - they should have had a recall - I'm still hacked..
George
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I was not to happy myself and had to make other arrangements as well.
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