Originally posted by Norm Kopecky:
Cecil, you bring up an interesting point. If many LMB are feed trained at the hatchery, we can almost count on them going for pellets when we put them in our lakes. This opens up a whole new set of possibilities for those people who want to raise big LMB in their lakes.
Norm,
This is true however I think as they get larger and there is a good food source they may not gravitate to the pellets. For the really larger ones there has to a lot of competition for feed and a shortage of natural feed for them to go for the pellets. And there are always a few that go off pellets.
My point was there are folks that get all excited that their bass are learning to feed on pellets when in reality they were trained to when younger.
I have an unreal density of bass in my bass pond feeding on pellets. About 300 from a pound to 5 lbs.
