On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:23:59 -0400, "Paul Goodwin"
wrote:


"daytripper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:04:26 -0400, "Tim J."

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One of them pointed out the trout were packed full of debris - small
stones,
sticks, etc. The nitwit fish were gorging on whatever items they spotted -
if
it didn't look like part of a concrete tank, and they could cram it
through
their mouths, they ate it...

So it would seem it wasn't that the trouties wouldn't "eat", it was they
already "ate", too well.

/daytripper (next time tie up a realistic "stone fly")

They probably weren't taking those off of the stream bed. One day after
float stocking (the same river I'd bet) I saw some of the meat fishermen
toss out their power bait and toss a handfull of small pebbles over it.
Aparently the splashing was like feeding time and they always got a hook up.

I've heard of the same thing happening at White's.

It was the opinion of the head of the central mass f&w hatchery program that
fresh stockers will eat anything they can fit in their mouths, and that it
took a couple of weeks before they would figure out what gave them energy and
what didn't...

Couple that with the fact that those fish gutters came over to us and asked
about the stones and sticks (and cigarette filter and bottle cap) and why
these fish were eating all that stuff, and I suspect I'll go with the f&w dude
on this issue...

/daytripper (but that's just me ;-)