I have posted on this subject in the past, but wanted to see if others have had the same experiences. I have had my pond for some time now and I have noticed that over the past year more and more of the LMB have been eating the catfish food. My guess is that they have been doing this for a lot longer and I did not notice until the water cleared up. On any evening you can see the LMB come up and eat the feed and here is the weird part, they don't strike it as one would expect, but slowly come up and suck down the pellets.
I did not stock feed trained bass and I guess that this is just learned behavior. Most people would say that this is not a problem and would even say that it is a blessing, but there seems to be a side effect. The bass have quit hitting lures and appear to have settled into a diet of just pellets. The pond is full of baby blue gill and they are eating pellets right along side of the LMB. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior or is this problem just endemic to my pond.
