Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Yellow Perch in-pond feed training

I was successful in feed training my Yellow Perch this year. We lost our LMB a couple years go, and still haven't seen or caught a single bass since. The YLP quickly began getting stacked up in the 6-8" range, and we literally caught hundreds and hundreds one day this winter with 5 guys fishing for a few hours...all of them between 4-8"

So, I needed to get them on feed and on their way to eating size quicker. We bought a Texas Hunter and a submerged LED light. I set it up so lighting turns on at dusk, and feeding begins 30 minutes later. A 1-second burst of 50% sinking commercial feeds (mixture of both 0.8mm crumble fines and 3/32" pellet) was broadcast every 30 minutes for 4 hours. The eight feedings each night totaled approximately 1.5 lbs of feed per night.

This video was taken 7-weeks after starting the feeding regime. These fish had never been exposed to pelleted commercial feeds prior to this. There was an area probably 30ft x 40ft that was nothing but perch feeding at the surface (and 3 ducks).




I will switch them over to a short night feeding time and add in an early morning feeding time, although I haven't decided on a number of feeding and duration for that yet....thinking 3 1-sec bursts both morning and night, all 20min apart.

Just thought I would share.