Time it takes will depend on several things including how hungry bass are as PFrog suggests. Another thing that will deter is how hard the bass have been fished in the past which would produce some negative influence of humans. The LMB will have to "learn" to overcome this "shyness". I think you are correct, damaged BG are getting eaten sooner or later maybe often later. Greg G provides good insight as to trimming of fins of feeder fish. It may take 3-6 wks or more for LMB to be conditioned/learn to take the dead ones off the top. Forage fish food shortages definately will enhance training time of the LMB. Pellet trained bass who are used to human feeding will train to eat BG a lot quicker than hard fished "wild" bass. Generally the longer and more regularly you do add the wounded BG the more conditioned the bass will become. Over a year or two more and more new, younger recruited bass will enter/learn the feeding foray. Pond size and number of feedig locations should also have an affect on feed training.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 05/26/10 12:35 PM.
