Originally Posted By: teehjaeh57
Originally Posted By: FireIsHot
Originally Posted By: teehjaeh57
I only feed the final 60 minutes of dusk to help BG predation in low light conditions. 1-2 second feeding 15 minutes apart. Results have been great for me using that method.
TJ, can you explain this?

The way my BOW lays, it gets a tremendous southerly wind, and the food floats away faster than the CNBG can eat it. I've been feeding 2 seconds, 4 times a day, but am gonna bump the frequency up next week. I mix sizes to make sure everybody gets fed, but the biggest CNBG always eat first. The smaller fish only seem to eat after the biggest bulls quit eating. My experience has been that the 8"+ CNBG won't even bother with the 400 size fish food unless the feeder's been off for a while.


I only feed the last 60 minutes until dark, so mainly during the dusk/twilight times, for 1-2 seconds at 10-15 minute intervals. I do this for several reasons:

Evenings are the best times for me to monitor feeding as I'm buried all AM and earlier PM and I like to witness feedings

Feeding in the evening brings BG into deeper water and close to surface in low light conditions which tip the favor to the predators. I need to encourage BG predation and feeding in low light in deeper water helps, I'm guessing/hoping, with BG predation.

I hate wind drift to the banks as coons end up tearing up the banks looking for pellets. So, that's why I only feed what can be cleaned up in 3-5 minutes, which is 1-2 seconds. I keep feedings 10-15 minutes apart as it's proved to be the best interval to ensure pellets are cleaned up but I'm not starving the fish.

Admittedly I could feed a 5G bucket of AM LMB formula to my HSB every night - but again, I'm trying to avoid excessive nutrient loads, encourage BG and GSH predation, and try to save some money in the process - so I do feed on the light side. I think I could easily double my daily feeding to get closer to George numbers, but am not equipped to handle the water quality or bg management issues that might arise.


OK, I gotcha. It was the predation thing I was asking about. You're trying to make the BG easier targets to control the numbers?

AL