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MarcusSat Dec-05-09 10:16 AM
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#11532, "Trout plant observations"


          

Thought I'd share a few observations from a trout plant I snorkeled a while back. I took a bunch of photos with my underwater camera but they all turned out like crap with the dim lighting.

A few years ago I was up in the mountains fishing mackinaw/lake trout and happened upon a trout plant. I keep snorkeling gear in my boat, and the launch ramp wasn't busy so I tied up and jumped in the water about 5 minutes after the DFG truck pulled away. I think it was about 2,000# of DFG stockers.

It was pretty amazing actually to see what was going on, the first thing that was obvious is that many of the trout were just hanging out in the immediate area of the plant, as if they felt they were still in the concrete pool, they acted like they were fenced in, despite their now having open space to roam.

A small percentage seemed stronger/better than the others and were acting more natural and shooting off into the lake while most were just dazed and confused.

A hundred or so trout were lying dead or twitching on the bottom right at the dump site.

Another hundred were obviously messed up, but not dead or dying on the bottom.

There are no bass in this lake and the macks were deep this time of year so I didn't observe anything whacking em... made me think though that while your average acclimated and healthy truck trout is obviously easy for a bigger fish to catch and eat, it's even easier to eat fresh dead or dying ones off the bottom initially, and that other 10% of upside down swimmers are pretty easy too!

I wonder how many of the big fish that feed on trout are able to just gorge on the real easy ones that are upside down twitching on the bottom, and get so many of them, so quickly, that they don't eat again for a little while depending on water temps/metabolism, and that could make for alot of variability and inconsistency in terms of timing fishing efforts with trout plants. Maybe just put that pale hudd on the bottom and leave it there when the trout are pouring out of the chute? Freespool with the clicker on, overalls and a Schlitz, barefoot, corn cob pipe, etc...??? haha

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