I have found that producing just a few fish as you are doing ends up with each fish costing lots of money. But you learned and had fun doing it. Paying a school for what you learned would also be costly, plus you get to keep the fish.
Have you tried mixing mashed or small chopped worm pieces into the moist pellets? Then rolling 1/4" pellets? For best moldable rolled pellets, they should have consitancy of pie dough - moldable damp but not soggy wet. If you do this the bass should readily accept the worm flavored pellets. Another good option is to soak pellets with pureed worm, chopped-mashed shrimp, worm juice, shrimp, crayfish or clam water juice -something flavorful or fishy. I have used crayfish collected from the local creek to get my crayfish meat/juice. Store bought shrimp should work well.
I have found that if you make the soft pellets into odd shapes the pellets will sink in an unusual pattern and appear alive or swimming. That will entice bass to try eating the pellet. Once a bass tastes a worm or shrimp flavored pellet most will always accept additional pellets. When bass are eating pellets for a few days toa week, you can gradually reduce amount of flavoring when you soak the pellets. Aquamax and other high quality feeds do contain some flavor enhancers. When training fish, I always add krill powder when I moisten my pellets.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 10/29/07 09:43 PM.
