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A friend of mine has a stock tank that has alot of bluegill in it and wants to start feeding them on a regular basis. Does anyone know a good feed for them, and where to get it ?? I have searched all over the net but cant find any information on food for them !!
Bellow are a few pictures of some of the bluegill !!
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Cargill's makes a good floating fish food...primarily for catfish, but it does wonders on bluegills or just about any species of bream. Nice bluegills and redear...looks like you're getting some bluegill/redear crosses.
Good to see a fellow TFFer on here !!
I did a web search for Cargills but didnt get any fish food results. Do you have a website, or know were it can be purchased ??
Thanks
Floating fish food works great for me. I sometimes put it in a bucket cover with water, let stand 10 min or so and then throw it in. That makes it break up sooner for the little fish. And keeps it from floating off.
Oh yea. Around here it is $10 for 50lbs.
You usually can get it at any feed store or Co-Op.
Brandon972 i saw it at rural king here in illinois if you have one of those stores or blaines farm & fleet probably has it too.
range cubes like they feed cattle will work also buy it at the feed store.
~ sticko ~
Just pick up roadkill and suspend it over the water somehow. The maggots will feed them.
Those bream with the neon colored face and gills are pumpkinseed. They are known in some areas as yellowbellies and do not get very big in most areas. I have a natural lake close to my home that is very clear water and has a lot of reeds growing around the edges of it. They get that size there of what you have in the pic and a little bigger. There are some bodies of water that have the right conditions for them and this lake does. They are fun to catch just like bluegills. CF
In the Ozarks and Smokies when I was a kid they called neon-face a rockbass.
In the waters where I caught them- big pools in streams- they hung out around shoreline boulders & rocks, or rocky ledges (like smallmouth). they fought much harder than bluegill pound for pound, and they have more meat on them for their length than gills. Plus, they just looked really cool. It was kind've a disappointment when I caught a trout instead.
In the streams/ small stream fed lakes I caught them both by suspending crawdad pieces or worms just over or just in the structure, or, even better, retrieving a tiny spinner just over likely looking holes and crevices.
Basically, just think a disco-dressed smallmouth which is one step down the foodchain- some ways it acts like a food-item, some ways it acts like a lot bigger predator.
The best bream food I found was Southern States Fish Food.
what a catch,nice fish