I've been thinking about taking out a few untrained largemouth and adding some untrained smallmouth bass to my blugegill/largemouth pond as a bonus fish. The pond has quite a few little bluegills, crawfish, minnows, snails, salamanders and frogs so I think the smallmouth would find enough to eat even with some big largemouth in there. I've read that SMB are easier to train than LMB. For those that have done it should I get a pen to put the SMB in for training purposes or just put them in and hope they learn from the bluegills that are already trained to take pellets?

The closest I've come to training the LMB is they'll come eat the bluegills at feeding time. Hoping training SMB is easier but would like to hear from some people that have done it successfully!