I tried the feed ring, making one out of PVC. It sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't take much for the feeding fish to have the water worked up so much that the feed swirls or moves under the ring and goes wherever it wants to.
The other reason I don't particularly like the feed ring is because it concentrates the feed too much. I feed about 25 pounds a day, over several areas. I use automatic feeders which make feed rings irrelevant. And I love to hand feed every day that I can. When I hand feed I have feed slung in an area at least 30 feet wide and from where I stand on the dock out as far as I can sling it, at least 20 feet. I have thousands of bluegills that "froth" the water like piranaha. If I made a feed ring big enough to handle all the fish I feed, the area would be so big that I wouldn't even need the ring.
My advice. No matter how dedicated you are you simply won't be able to hand feed your fish twice a day, EVERY day. Get some "Spincast Feeders" fill em up, and check them often till you are sure you undersand them and that they are working reliably AND the fish are flocking in. When a vehicle gets withing 100 feet of my "new" lake I can see waves and ripples of fish scurrying in.
I've been meaning to make a video of this to post here and maybe this thread will prompt me to do that this week-end.
Good luck, and feed them all they will eat.
"Bill"
