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esshup has good suggestions - heed them.

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You are feeding high quality fish food and using a good autofeeder to distribute the pellets. A feed spreader time of 5-8 sec each day should distribute plenty of food for your size pond, type of fishery combination and your goals of big BG with some table use harvest while reducing the amount of green string algae (aka FA).

Since your pond is at a carrying capacity weight stimulated that was by IMO excessive pellet feeding,, and you have only harvested around 80 fish so far, then as suggested by esshop, each year going forward to start,,,,, FOCUS on harvesting mostly the female BG in spring early summer (Mar-July) and also remove Each Year at least 150-200 of the smaller BG sizes (3"-6") should allow you to maintain ample numbers of fast growing big BG for a once daily feeding of 5 sec. Catch, trap or seine to remove the small BG. Wth a small #8 or #10 hook and worm under a bobber, you should be able to catch at least 10-20 small BG each hour.
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When LMB of 8”-10” appear shinny, harvest 10-15 of the medium size LMB per year. Keep good paper or digital annual records in a Pond Log of all sizes and numbers of fish harvested. Then the annual trends of fish sizes caught will allow you to see if the fish community of sizes and numbers is remaining somewhat stable. When the visual annual summaries of the fish caught and numbers harvested gets skewed toward average smaller sizes then you can make adjustments going forward as to what you are harvesting.

One idea to determine how much food is being distributed for each timed pellet feeding is when the feeder runs empty weigh the amount of food that you put into the feeder. Let’s use one 40 lb bag. Set the feeder to distribute for 5 seconds once a day. Then divide the number of feedings (days) it took to distribute the 40 lb of food pellets. Example - 1 quart of BG sized pellets weighs close to 14 oz. We start with 40 lbs of pellets. If it takes 30 days of one 5 second feeding per day to use the 40 lbs(640oz), then one 5 sec feeding delivers 21.3 oz of pellets. 21.3oz / 14oz/qt = 1.5 quart of pellets/day or 4.26 oz of pellets per second of feeder run time.
3-4 sec feeder setting should deliver close to 1 quart or pound of pellets.
In a fertile naturally productive 1 ac pond with alkalinity at or above 40 ppm, 1 quart of pellets per day for your specific fishery goal and pond should be very adequate to produce large bluegill for some annual harvest of panfish (females, immature BG, and a few two to five LMB per year that are larger than 14”). In my experience the more immature BG (2"-5") that you can harvest each year more than 200, this will skew higher the numbers of larger BG to be present for your 1 quart of pellets fed per day for this 1+ acre pond. Don't forget your pond with alkalinity above 40ppm will produce lots of natural foods even with some use of blue dye to adequately grow fish for your goals. Your dyed pond water in a white 5 gal bucket should be the color of clear sky blue. ALL this assumes you are doing proper thinning of the density of BG each year.

In the future be welcome to return with your pond adventure results so we can help with some management ideas to maintain a quality fishery or a better fishery and hopefully reduce the amount of floating string algae and need for algaecide. Pond dye should help reduce high amounts of string algae when the amount of pellets fed daily is reduced to around one 5 sec per day. Your pond gathers more algae feeding nutrients per day especially in summer. Nature says - Constant Accumulation of nutrients pushes the pond to grow more plant materials.