Thoughts may be changing about how much other fish HSB eat. Of course, we've all caught them on live minnow/shiners, and we've seen them balling up bait, but we also know that their mouths do not get as big as LMB and SMB.
I think Augie has said that when he cleans his HSB for eating, he only sees feed and crayfish in them, but not other small fish.
So, your HSB may be more keyed up on feed and less on live fish than the LMB/SMB.
This is good information, They definitely have all the minnows, shiners, crayfish and frogs they can handle but they are eating the feed as fast as the machine will throw it
The pond is lightly stocked with my predators and they act like they are starving when the feeder goes off.
I have been told to feed as much as they will consume in 5 minutes
I play around with the feed timer all the time, They will clean up 10 seconds on the Texas hunter feeder in a minute, I will throw out 10 more seconds and they clean it up just as fast
I will throw out another 10 seconds and they will consume that in 2-3 minutes.
My feeder on the other side of the pond goes off an hour later and they are over there eating it up just as fast
