It really is best to keep and eye on things when feeding with an automated feeder. I try to get out once or twice a week. Over the last few years I have seen some odd things with our fish. Summer months they just stop eating it and take to the minnow population. Spring and fall I set it to shoot 3 seconds of feed if they eat all that in 10 minutes then another at 3 seconds and so one till they stop eating.

Like this spring we had 4~ 3second feeds and now we have only one at 2 seconds and its just feeding the minnows. The perch are completely off the feed. I expect as the water cools they will go back on the feed like they did in years past. Or just maybe they will stay on the crayfish and minnows and I will be done feeding for now.

Long story long.... keep and eye on it and don't over feed. Hungry fish are aggressive fish.

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