I'll be honest, if I were raising the fish in my pond for the dinner table, I wouldn't feed anything but 32% catfish feed. Cheap, and easily obtainable.
Sprkplug my fish (to my satisfaction) did great my first year on 32% catffsh food.
Then PBF convinced me I was doing the wrong thing.
So I dutifully switched to better feed.
I have never had any problem with my fish not wanting to eat anything I have thrown out there (except maybe a fishing lure......LOL)
Edit: I only now feed about 3# per acre or less so my fish are only getting feed in a suplimental way. I'm not particularly going for trophies, although I would not turn one down, but rather large numbers of really nice catchable fish.
