Pot Luck, Where are you located? You might want to experriment with yellow perch and chain pickerel. I have no exprience with them it is just an idea. YP and larger soft rayed fishes are better suited as a forage fish for the pikes than sunfishes. Bass could also be a good forage fish for pickerel, however bass are also a predator and raising them as forage for a predator is ineffecient.


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