Pond Boss Forums INTRO New Forum Member Introduction Hoping to grow (and catch) monsters

BB, I think you are on the right track in keeping a log of fish caught. What I think will happen is the LMB might be stunted because of not enough food in the pond. The only choice you have (unless you have very deep pockets) is to take out the stunted LMB (say everything you catch less than 12"-14" long). That's the only way to get enough food for the other LMB to grow. As a rule of thumb, each and every LMB needs 10# of live food to put on 1# of weight. Now, if you can convince your LMB to eat pellets, the conversion rate is much better. I've seen 1 1/4# of pellets to 1# of weight added bantered about. But, usually if the LMB haven't been feed trained from hatching, they won't eat pellets.