I hand feed only in our ponds, and have noticed that the bluegills appear to be after something better?? for lack of a better term. By this I mean that they are waiting for me when I arrive, and there's always a surge for that initial, first handful of feed thrown. But then, they will leave the remaining feed floating on the water and follow me instead.....I feed the entire length of the dams on a couple of ponds, and they will follow me, eating as they go. But they continue to move with me until I reach the end, whereupon they reverse course and eat their way back across.

It's almost like they're expecting that next handful of feed to be better than the last, and nobody wants to miss out just in case it is.They will clean up the entire batch, just not at one location at a time. I always figured it was a competitive response or stimulus from food being in the water, but really don't know.

I do know that they will eat better if I break up the feeding sessions similar to what TJ describes. I throw some out, then return 10-15 mins later after they have cleaned it up and throw out an additional amount. That always seems to fire em' back up, and they eat very well. Much more aggressively than what they did when I fed the total amount all at once. Another instance of a competitive feeding response??

"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.