Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain LMB and bluegill

To put one pound of weight on one largemouth bass, it needs to eat 10 pounds of fish. In a pond setting, BG are the only fish that have enough fecundity to support a LMB predator based pond.

If your goals is to raise large RES, then you don't need BG in the pond. BUT, if your goal is to grow larger LMB, then BG it is.

You may get away with buying feed trained LMB and using a good fish food for their primary food source too, along with RES in the pond. Gish farms grow LMB to a couple of pounds for the restaurant market solely on fish food. But, I don't know of anyone that has a RES/LMB pond where their goal is to grow larger LMB. Down South, the LMB will feed longer into the winter, and start feeding earlier than up here.