I've been feeding the fish in my pond (LMB & BG) some bugs near the pond to give them some live food instead of the bread and pellets.
They love it and snatch them up quickly.
I've been tossing in beetles, crickets, grasshoppers and centipedes.
Any problem with this?
The reason I ask is I noticed many grasshoppers and crickets towards the back of the property while mowing yesterday and was going to scoop a bunch up for feeding.
On a side note I found a dead fish in the pond the other day. I believe it was an LMB. This is good and bad. Bad to lose the fish but good in that I haven't seen any LMB since I stocked the pond last fall. I put them in at 2-3" and this fish is 12". The picture is below. Is he an LMB?
I'm not sure what got to him. He appeared to have had his chest cut open.
