mr willy, I do indeed have HSB. They came from Keo via Carlson Clearwater Fish. Including delivery, they cost about $4.50 each. I got 50 and Jim Mannerud (Dave Willis manages his lakes) got 50. About half were 6-8" and the other half were 8-10". This was on 9/30/04 and I'm sorry that none of them survived for Jim. In addition to possibly being eaten in Jim's lake, they may not have had enough forage.,
Certainly I don't know how many surived for us but I do know that a large number of them did. We catch them from both size groups. We do feed them Aquamax 600 but this is done irregularily. I'm guessing that they are growing much slower because of this but that's OK with me.
Our biggest LMB were only 16-18" with most of them 14-16" at the time of stocking so maybe they weren't big enough to eat all of the HSB.
Our lake is predator heavy so they really have to fight for other forage.
I'm glad we have them, they provide a wonderful addition to our lake.
