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If you don't have enough habitat cover the small fish will get eaten before they grow to larger sizes where they serve as a larger food item. For the crayfish to maintain broodstock they require quite a bit of cover-habitat; whole shorelines lined with large rock below the low water level. Add the large rock when the pond is at low level so the rock-concrete is always under water. Rocks piled help add vertical cover. Add more larger panfish to boost the prey predator ratio toward 30:1 will help with keeping the bass growing. You can always reduce the number of predators to help improve prey:predator ratio until you see improved numbers of forage fish. Feeding pellets to the BG improves spawning condition, improves growth of the BG, and increases the number or pounds of fish per area. A healthier BG population improves the predator base. If the stocker BG were not pellet trained you will have to use extra effort to get them to accept dry food.