I hear ya! I wish they would grow as fast as my trout do, although on commercial feed they grow faster than wild bass on natural feed.

Thanks for the prices but I tyically purchase smaller 4 to 6 inch bass locally, feed them in a floating cage, and liberate them into the pond with the rest of the larger bass when they are greater than 8 inches. They seem to do very well in a large floating cage about 7 to 10 feet X 7 to 10 feet. I have a small 11,000 gallon holding pond now I can grow them out in too.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.