Enough spankings and you get conditioned...
Every spring I stock around 100 trout in the creek behind our hunting cabin in March. They never see a pellet again in their life... By June when I catch them and gut them, the items I find in their stomachs are incredibly diverse... Everything from pebbles and hemlock cones that look like pellets to bluntnose minnows, crayfish and a mix of many assorted aquatic insect nymphs. I even found a 6" white sucker in the stomach of a 18" brown trout last spring!
This spring I may think about putting a feeder on the bank of the creek and feeding pellets for the first time ever... My only reservation about this idea is all the trespassers who as of now have no clue we stock trout will get a strong hint by seeing a feeder and 50 trout hanging out around it!
