Selecting the best Purina Aquamax fish food for Bluegill

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Guillory on June 27, 2009 at 2:35pm

Walt,

Thanks so much for your response which contains a wealth of information. I should have mentioned, in addition to the coppernose and redear, I put in 30 lbs of fathead minnows for bass. Then two weekends ago, we put in 600 black bass fingerlings and 1,000 or so crawfish for the bass next year (and for the redear/shell crackers as well since they love crawfish). You observation may be accurate in that I may have put too many fingerlings in my pond, however, my thought was that the black bass would keep them thinned out. As for aeration, I have a 4" well that pushing 95 gallons a minute with 70 lbs of pressure and gets the water about 20 feet into the air, but we very seldom have to rely on the well, since my pond in on my Louisiana farm and we typically get about 55" inches of rain fall per year. Thanks again for taking the time to provide excellent information to me. I am really Ned and his first McGuffey Reader on learning to grow trophy bluegill. Lynn

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Condello on June 27, 2009 at 1:50pm

Feel free to send me a PM on this site. I'm a Purina spokesman, so I don't want to seem like I'm advertising.

In my opinion its a tremendous product. Bluegill grow like crazy on it.

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Guillory on June 27, 2009 at 2:39pm

Bruce,

So, do I understand you to say that I should change over to the Purina Aquamax Grower 500? And discontinue the Purina Aquamax Dense 4000?

Lynn

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Guillory on June 27, 2009 at 7:55pm

Walt,

Thanks so much for the reply. I have read Bruce Condello's articles and have talked with him at the Pond Boss Conferences in Arlington, TX the last two years. I know Bob Lusk and have a lot of admiration for his knowledge and his willingness to share it with others. I have subscribed to Pond Boss for many years now. He was gracious enough to publish in the recent (May 2009) issue of Pond Boss magazine an article I wrote on the re-work of my four acre pond entitled "Beautiful Pond or Good Fishery - Could both be possible?" If you will e-mail me at lynnguillory@gmail.com I will send you a copy of the article by e-mail. It was a great project and I am really looking forward to seeing if I can raise both trophy bluegill and nice size bass for fly fishing. Thanks again for the good information and your willingness to share it with me.

Lynn

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