Dave - Curious, do you do anything other than pellets to keep the BG at max production along with culling of the LMB?
Theo - thanks for the direction on the study I'm going to try to track it down.
Below is a listing I posted in an earlier post with reported energy densities.
Species................J/g Wet......Author
===========......======......================
Black crappie........4186..........Kitchell et al. 1974
Bluegill..................4186..........Kitchell et al. 1974
Common carp.......7524..........Cummins and Wuycheck 1971
Golden shiner.......4983..........Kelso 1972
Green sunfish.......4186..........Kitchell et al. 1974
Largemouth Bass..4186.........Rice et al. 1983
Northern crayfish...6153.........Stein and Murphy 1976
Northern pike.........3600.........Bevelheimer et al. 1985
Rainbow trout.........6069.........Rand et al. 1993
I think I remember this post from my early days on PB, and it's likely where I remember the common carp value I mentioned above. Was this by chance in a thread we were talking about Trophy LMB and RBT?
Common Carp and GS would both probably be off my list for anything other than fresh cut hand feeding due to trouble I would likely face in introduced into the pond.
Rainbows and Crays are very interesting to me. I wonder how one would rank a forage species if there was a chance one of them would potentially recruit year of year vs annual mortality due to water temps. TP not listed above also fit into this category I think with the annual mortality - and their need to die due to being more prolific than BG.
