I gotta take a video of them feeding now. They're jumping completely out of the water when feeding.
As many of you know, I love cooking and eating -- especially fish, roadkill, venison, etc. I can take or leave most trout -- except for slow/cold smoked.
Feeding is my major reason for loving them. It is so incredible to take kids and the elderly down to the pond and let them throw pellets into the water. Trout must be naturally near-sighted. In seconds of throwing pellets into the pond, the crazy trout attack pellets like they are mayflies 2 feet above the water surface. These silly fish jump straight out of the water, dance on their tails for a second or two, and belly flop back into the pond -- before they repeat the whole sequence.
