Originally Posted by esshup
Originally Posted by Theo Gallus
Originally Posted by jpsdad
GSH are not going compete well for feed provided the feed is larger than their gape and in sufficient quantity for the predators only.
The voice of compete and utter inexperience strikes out again.

IME GSH love taking fish feed, and unless your feeding something the size of Aquamax Largemouth, won't have trouble eating it. I also see oodles of fingerlings picking at the water softened outside of feed pellets and finishing them off.

Theo, I have to agree. It's from a person that does not own a pond, nor do they manage a pond professionally for other people. While they can do a great job of reading, researching and regurgitating information they found like it is their own discovery, this just shows the huge difference between book learnin' and actual hands on experience. My experience is just like yours. GSH will grab food that is bigger than their gape size, swim off with it to keep other fish from stealing it and mouth it until they can swallow it.

A customer that has a great large panfish producing pond thinks that they have to many GSH because they swarm the food when it's feeding time and he catches a lot of 8" or larger adults when ice fishing. BUT his hybrid Crappie and Hybrid Striped Bass are growing by leaps and bounds.

Here is an example of a GSH grabbing a Stubby Steves which is the size of Aquamax 600.
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Wonder what they taste like? And yes they do aggresively eat fish food i just stocked more shinners in my pond and they group around pellets and pick at it until it softens. Just to back up your observations.

Last edited by Hotbiggun; 02/08/26 03:36 PM.