Starving Bass to Eat Pellets

[FishNCash]

How long would you ever starve your bass to make it eat pellets? My 6-7" bass is on day 15 without a meal now. Should I give in to give it some frozen feeders?

 

[Troy1015]

I would try shrimp. My bass seem to take to shrimp before pellets. Once they take to shrimp i throw pellets and shrimp and they seem to start eating both.

 

[krichardson]

^You can try that and/or the tried and true method of Gangster's.

 

[FishNCash]

It's eating pellets after 21 days starving.

 

[krichardson]

It's eating pellets after 21 days starving.

That wasn't too long actually.

 

[FishNCash]

That wasn't too long actually.

its long enough to look like skin hanging onto bones.

 

[krichardson]

its long enough to look like skin hanging onto bones.

I would think it would take longer than twenty days for a fish to look like that.

 

[FishNCash]

Got another stubborn bass that won't take pellets. 15 days and counting.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

This is terrible. I never had to starve a bass for more than a day or two. And I would never do it to a point where the fish loses body weight.

If this is a before and after, the first picture doesn't look like the fish was no where near ready to be trained over to pellets.

 

[FishNCash]

This is terrible. I never had to starve a bass for more than a day or two. And I would never do it to a point where the fish loses body weight.

If this is a before and after, the first picture doesn't look like the fish was no where near ready to be trained over to pellets.

Boost-they are not before and after. It just some pics showing how skinny the fish is from different angles. Well I caved in last night and gave it tilapia. He ate 10 pieces then spit almost of it back out. Luckily the dat moped up the tilapia on the floor. He seem to swim up for tilapia but won't strike at pellets.