It may take a while but CC will find the pellets. When they do they will suck them like a vacuum cleaner. If you have tons of fingerling bream like I do, you may not want to feed the fish. I figured the LMB would have thinned the little bream and that did not happen. The catfish didn't seem to care about them either. If I see a lot of little bream come spring, I'm not setting up the feeder-those big catfish will have all those bream to feed off of!