On Mar 27, 6:18 pm, "Joe McIntosh" wrote:
still learning---how does a trout find it"s spot beside the streamside log
after it has been chased out to midstream?
eye ? nose ? [seems current would deny this }? brain memory ?

nothing else to think about when you wake up at 4am and paper does not
arrive till 6

Joe

Hmm, I doubt if anyone actually knows, and the trout ain't telling.

But I suspect that it is by nose/lateral line. Even though the moving
water washes away scents, I suspect that the substrate continually
recharges the water with things that can be sensed by the fish.

I once lived downwind from a pulp and paper plant. Even though the
wind continually moved the odor away, it was always being recharged,
and was always there. I think the 'scents' in the water might be the
same.

--riverman