Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Pellet trained Yellow Perch.

Has anyone experienced yellow perch with a very large minnow population leave pellets?

It seems now that I have had to turn our feeder back to one 3 second feed. The perch do not take the feed at all. In the spring we were up to six five second feeds and the perch were all over the feed, but now they only want to eat the minnows that are feeding.

Has anyone encountered pellet trained perch leave pellets because the natural feed is over abundant?

We started the pond so the forage base had a year head start and the perch were pellet trained leaving the minnow base and crayfish alone for a second year.

Cheers Don.