Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain I overstocked. , now what?

Use feed trained bass only if you set up several feeders to feed those bass. Otherwise stocking feed trained bass will get a slow growth start since they are trained to eat pellets and it could take a few weeks for them to figure out that the only food for them is live food. Fish eating stockers will start eating and growing the first day. After one and two reproductions about all the offspring will not eat pellets and they will feed primarily on live food. If you want pellet eating bass long term (6-20yrs) you have to periodically stock more pellet trained bass.