I'm not sure about La., but it's O.K. to do that in Indiana. Dad wanted to feed the fish (why, I have no idea - he doesn't fish). I put an extra feeder on the pier, bolting it to the pier, and using a cable through the feeder and locking it to the pier. It took a while because the fish weren't used to pellets (and he was feeding generic floating catfish food - not high fish oil content food). He had Golden Shiners, Bluegills and Carp feeding after a couple weeks. There were LMB there at the feeder too, but not eating pellets, they were picking off the smaller BG and shiners.


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