Yes I would feed them. I would want to get them as large as I could in one summer. Then net them and put them in my lake. If it would work I would make one for minnows too for bait and to stock lake.

61 acre water shed lake. bass, channel cat, black crappie, wiper, walleye, redear sunfish, blue catfish and bluegill. To many bullhead and common carp
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