Thanks David for your reply. This gives me hope. I will take your instructions and build me a manual feeder if the perch/bluegill start to take food from the dock. How did you build your feeder ring with 1" PVC pipe? Did you just heat it (what length of PVC) and bend it round and connect the two ends together and glue with a 1" CONNECTOR? Thanks for speaking out and supplying your hands on knowledge as this is very important to NEWBEE"S like us....

Rowly