I have heard over and over that bucket stocking LMB into an environment that is dissimilar to the original is detrimental to the fishes growth.
For instance, taking a 5 lb LMB from a lily pad pond to a pond with no plants but lots of forage.
They simply don't know how to hunt?
This fascinates me, since no one taught them to hunt in the first place.

Can anyone recount a success story of bucket stocking into a dissimilar BOW?


Half acre 30 year old farm pond, Mebane NC. Aeration & feeder.
LMB, CC, SC, BG, HBC, two no account welfare carp and nine seasonal Tilapia that all the other fish are terrified of.