Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations PELLET EATING BASS

I think it's a classic Catch-22 situation, Greg.

You want great big bass, so you limit their numbers and supply beau coup forage. Your bass can eat tons of natural feed, and see no reason to eat those funky pellets.

I want loads of extra, hungry bass. They notice, while trying to eat all-to-scarce forage fish which are distracted by eating pellets, that those little round floating things show up in large numbers regularly and will fill their bellies up. They don't taste as natural as fish, but it beats being hungry. So they go on and stay on pellets.

"Si vis pacem, para bellum" - "If you wish for peace, prepare for war."