You will have to talk to your particular fish supplier to see if the LMB are feed trained or not. If they are, that makes life a lot easier. If not, then it's work.
Remember, if you have to feed the fish live food, it will cost more $$ and take a LOT more time, as you can't keep live food in a bag in the pole barn. You will have to go get it every few days or once a week, then keep it live....
If you have 100 LMB, and you are bringing them from fingerling size to 8 oz each (used that figure for easy calculations) then you will have to feed them 500 pounds of live food.....
Some will learn to eat pelleted food, some won't. The more fish in a cage, the faster they will learn to eat due to competition. BUT, then what do you do with the excess fish if more than what you want convert to pellets??
