Newbee,

I still say they were probably pellet trained. Largemouths are trained at about 2 inches or less and that is quite small. It's more cost effective to grow them out to stocking size to train them on pellets. It takes 4/5/s less feed to feed them to stocking size on pellets vs. live feed like fatheads. A simple call to your supplier should answer your question.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.