Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat Perch spawning habitat?

With the hopes to add to this topic and thread I have a question as well.

What are the chances of new young perch that are spawned in the pond learning by their parents to eat pellets?

I have found it quite easy to create a huge bio mass of perch in a short time with pellet feeding. The minnow bio mass as well love to eat the soft pellets after the perch are full. I am just wondering what % if any will learn from the stocked pellet trained to eat the pellets.

Why I ask is because last year we did have a small perch spawn in our pond. With my boys fishing every day I could tell what perch were of the original stock and what were young yearling perch. Late in the season the only perch the boys would catch were the young yearling perch as the stocked perch would gorge on pellets. I would watch the young yearling perch eat the bugs attracted by our water lights as well. I just do not know how many may have been eating pellets as well as the bugs. I guess that in the future the few scrawny yearling perch would be eaten by the larger perch of the pond. One more thing to add is that any yearling perch that the boys would catch on a worm and hook when caught would only poop out bugs. None of them that were caught on a hook would poop out pellet feed. Maybe the only ones eating the worms are the only hungery ones as well and the only ones needing to eat worms and bug.

Cheers Don.