Mark,

I feed to satiation and by hand. I would say as much as they will eat in 20 minutes or less. I feed about 300 9 to 14 inch perch, about 75 eight to ten inch bluegills, and less than 200 6 to 8 inch smallmouth bass, about 3 lbs. of feed every evening on one .62 acre pond. In another .10 acre pond I feed about 100 8 to 11 inch yellow perch and 200 5 to 8 inch bluegills about 2 lbs of feed. There is other food in both ponds as in fathead minnows and snails.

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