jbrokey, The first blues I harvested was early spring and it had brushy pondweed in it's stomach.
I don't know.
big pond, you asked about stocking rates. I guess it depends on how many blues you want eating your bass. You never said where youre from. Blues are open water fish and are going to need open water forage like shad to grow the best.
Did you ever do a search on blues? You need to. Most state fisheries departments have the basic habits, diets, lifespans, etc.. You also need to know habits to be able to catch them. Did you raead the posts on redear and how some stocked them and never saw them again? Others wrote back and said you have to fish near the bottom.