To date at least, I have caught a lot more of my CC by casting and retrieving curly tail jigs and small crank baits that I have actually fishing for them on the bottom with catfish bait. Mine are probably in the 16-18" range.
That kind of tells me they were chasing live things to eat.
I do also observe them feeding on the bottom. When I hand feed around the perimeter of the pond, the feed is usually mixed floating and sinking. If I wait about five minutes and hold real still, eventually the CC will eat the further out feed and work their way up the bank to where I can see them.
All my fish must be getting enough to eat. Water temperature 60 degrees and we are having a heck of a time catching any. One or two here and there, but not exactly exciting. Yet when we feed see lots of 3-6" BG and an occasional larger one, and the CC as I described.
The BH in our old pond are chow hounds. You can see them hitting the floating feed on the top of the water and I am sure they are also eating the sinking feed. When we catch one while they are feeding they will be stuffed to the gills with feed.
Last edited by snrub; 03/24/15 10:27 AM.
