Geosteve I had a great visit at Nedoc's place last year and he is growing some monster RES by feeding them cut up fish fillets. I watched some frying pan size ones come up to near the surface to take the fish strips being tossed out. So if a person wants to spend the time and effort, RES can be a formidable sport fish brim. Nedoc is doing some really neat stuff with fish feeding.
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my 1/20th acre forage pond I have RES and currently GSH (originally FHM) and I am pretty sure at least some of my RES are eating some feed that sinks and makes it to the bottom. The reason I think so is that when I use the cast net I get more RES per throw and larger ones from the feed area when I have just fed compared to not feeding. I feed the GSH a little. It could be the RES are just attracted to the feeding activity of the GSH and are not really eating any of the feed. But my feeling is a few have learned to eat pellets without specific training effort.
