I've got to confess, Joe. I was out with my sister and her husband a few seasons ago on Lake Jackson LMB fishing and dunking plastic worms on spinning tackle (it happens from time to time as I'm the only one in my family that also uses fly tackle), near a bass feeder (above the water hanging kind). We released a lot but also kept three or four small LMB that went to a neighbor of mine. Not something I (we) usually do (like you, I feel its not sporting) just happened to be fishing that side of the lake and realized there was a feeder there. Maybe those bassers knew the feeder was a panfish feeder and not a bass feeder by the type of feeder? Just guessing because I don't know much about fish feeders .