Interesting read Eric. I had a couple of minutes to play with the Optimal Bass last night. First thing that struck me was the smell. It's not like any fish food I've ever dealt with before. Rather than the fish smell of the old Aquamax it had a stink bait, or blood bait smell to it. It also had the fish oil smell, but not as strong as the stink bait smell. I did throw it out to my feed trained redears and they hammered it. So that was good to see. And it did continue to float indefinitely. I was a bit surprised that it didn't look as big as expected. If Aquamax 600 is 6mm and this is 9mm, it sure didn't seem to my eye that much bigger. But I didn't have any AM600 on hand to compare to.