tomnordman
4/12/2011 7:01:00 PMAnglinarcher
4/12/2011 7:13:00 PMriprap101
4/12/2011 10:55:00 PMrwl
4/13/2011 7:40:00 AMriprap, you said there were 2-3 inch food items in the stomachs of some of the fish, were you able to ID what they were?
I noticed that surface in places is blanketed with what look to me like chironomid (midge) shucks. Re: the bloom of floating algae. Are the trout actually eating the algae (and possible associated insects), or are they full of chironomids?
basser90
4/13/2011 12:21:00 PMAnglinarcher
4/13/2011 4:05:00 PMBesides, other then riprap and perhaps you, no on believes me anyway. LOL
RWL, is is moss, floating up from the bottom, not chironomids. I have seen bows do this a lot, and I expect that they are taking it as an algae or plankton source. Still, I have set at Sprague, Rock, Coffee Pot, and dozens of other lakes over the years and watched the moss float up and the Bows pick it off.
rwl
4/13/2011 6:11:00 PMriprap, you said there were 2-3 inch food items in the stomachs of some of the fish, were you able to ID what they were?
I noticed that surface in places is blanketed with what look to me like chironomid (midge) shucks. Re: the bloom of floating algae. Are the trout actually eating the algae (and possible associated insects), or are they full of chironomids?
rwl
4/13/2011 6:15:00 PMThat is interesting the moss eating. maybe I'll tie up some marabou moss flies and give it a shot.
There were definitely 100s of nymph shucks on the surface though. I saw chironomid adults coming off, so I assumed the shucks were chironomids
Anglinarcher
4/14/2011 7:33:00 AMI see a lot of the "american" trout doing this. I think that they get sufficient food value from the moss that they actually benefit. It is always this floating moss/plankton, and it may be filled with Zooplankton as well. The "european" trout, of which Browns fit, don't seem to do it at all. I think browns are not tuned into plankton very much after they get bigger then maybe 4 to 6 inches in size.