I caught my CC on hard baits Spring, Summer, and Fall. Mine ate fish. And the paper re-posted here backs that observation up. In this paper (unlike some others), they looked at forage fish in terms of the weight of stomach contents rather than as a frequency of occurrence (a dozen insects may weigh less than one fish). Different food items also leave the stomach at different rates, further complicating the interpretation of results.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Qui...e9f93e7ff48.pdf If you blow up the figure at this link, one sees that the 3 statistically equivalent top items in the stomachs of CC are vegetation, fish, and crayfish (in this study).
