Originally posted by Cecil Baird1:
Even if you do get a successful hatch in your spawning stream, where will you put them to keep the larger trout from eating them?
I hadn’t thought about that. I could try to keep the young in the stream and the larger out (after spawning) or maybe I could keep enough minnows/shiners in the pond that they won’t eat all of the trout.
Even if I don’t have any reproduction, I think by giving the trout a habitat where they could spawn would be beneficial. I read somewhere that part of the reason trout have a shorter life span when stocked in a pond, is due to the stress of having to reabsorb their eggs.
