I would not be in a hurry to transfer all of them this year. IMO transfer those that are at least 10.5" or 11" as you collect them. They will grow relatively fast to 12" when eating pellets. You could see those that were 6"-9" get to 11-12" by this fall 2018. Keep in updated about your progress!
Thanks for that info Bill. Hopefully the SMB take to feed. If they do I may not even worry much about transferring. I could probably sustain the 90 in that pond with supplemental feed. I just figured it would be too many SMB for that size BOW if they were totally dependent only on FHM and RES for forage.
