We have farms out here that have 100% pellet trained LMB. They are raised for food fish for the Asian market. They frenzy when the feeders come on. No one uses Purina, especially game chow. They mostly use EWOS floating salmon, good size pellets. I think it is around 41% protein, and sometimes they feed them EWOS boost, before trucking.
Your lmb are probably lost causes for pellets. It is very difficult to get them to go from minnows to pellets. Not so hard vice versa. I agree with Cody, better get some new pellet trained candidates. But they have to be big enough not to become food themselves. I just caught a 5 lb on a 5 incher. Just a big minnow to them. I don;t know how large these fish would go on pellets, because all of them are market bound in 18 months, and look like footballs. All girth, no head or tail size. $6 a lb wholesale, $8 retail.
