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Speaking of eating the whole thing . . .
Tuesday after a local investigation, one of my employees and I decided
to hit the Bass Pro Shop n Gurnee, Illinois. While there the staff began feeding the fish tank occupants. First watched several fish swim under a huge school of minnows of some type. Interestingly none ever hit the school; they all would wait until one minnow fell out of formation or lagged behind for just a bit then . . . POW! Now I know why those little guys bunch up the way they do. And then the most interesting part. One guy started tossing night crawlers into the tank and virtually every species went nuts on them. No question who the Pizza King of food is with the fish. . . worms. And then along comes this six or seven lb. rainbow trout. We counted he ate 40 night crawlers ! He swam around for about 10 minutes and then reguritated them all up and swam away. The rest of the fish tore into the left overs like they were prime rib. Even the staff were surprized at this behavior. Most interesting thing for me about the whole thing though was the universal appeal across species for the common night crawler. There were juicy minnows in the tank, and two different types of pellets (some that suspended), crawfish and the crawlers and all went nuts on those worms. Hmmmmm think I'll pick up more plastics. -- God Bless America Josh The Bad Bear |
Speaking of eating the whole thing . . .
My guess is that the worms fall real slow and just make for an easy target
for the fish. No wasted energy there! "Josh" wrote in message ... Tuesday after a local investigation, one of my employees and I decided to hit the Bass Pro Shop n Gurnee, Illinois. While there the staff began feeding the fish tank occupants. First watched several fish swim under a huge school of minnows of some type. Interestingly none ever hit the school; they all would wait until one minnow fell out of formation or lagged behind for just a bit then . . . POW! Now I know why those little guys bunch up the way they do. And then the most interesting part. One guy started tossing night crawlers into the tank and virtually every species went nuts on them. No question who the Pizza King of food is with the fish. . . worms. And then along comes this six or seven lb. rainbow trout. We counted he ate 40 night crawlers ! He swam around for about 10 minutes and then reguritated them all up and swam away. The rest of the fish tore into the left overs like they were prime rib. Even the staff were surprized at this behavior. Most interesting thing for me about the whole thing though was the universal appeal across species for the common night crawler. There were juicy minnows in the tank, and two different types of pellets (some that suspended), crawfish and the crawlers and all went nuts on those worms. Hmmmmm think I'll pick up more plastics. -- God Bless America Josh The Bad Bear |
Speaking of eating the whole thing . . .
Hence the success of the senko and it's look a likes
"Charles B. Summers" (Comcast) wrote in message ... My guess is that the worms fall real slow and just make for an easy target for the fish. No wasted energy there! "Josh" wrote in message ... Tuesday after a local investigation, one of my employees and I decided to hit the Bass Pro Shop n Gurnee, Illinois. While there the staff began feeding the fish tank occupants. First watched several fish swim under a huge school of minnows of some type. Interestingly none ever hit the school; they all would wait until one minnow fell out of formation or lagged behind for just a bit then . . . POW! Now I know why those little guys bunch up the way they do. And then the most interesting part. One guy started tossing night crawlers into the tank and virtually every species went nuts on them. No question who the Pizza King of food is with the fish. . . worms. And then along comes this six or seven lb. rainbow trout. We counted he ate 40 night crawlers ! He swam around for about 10 minutes and then reguritated them all up and swam away. The rest of the fish tore into the left overs like they were prime rib. Even the staff were surprized at this behavior. Most interesting thing for me about the whole thing though was the universal appeal across species for the common night crawler. There were juicy minnows in the tank, and two different types of pellets (some that suspended), crawfish and the crawlers and all went nuts on those worms. Hmmmmm think I'll pick up more plastics. -- God Bless America Josh The Bad Bear |
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