Originally Posted By: Bill D.
Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
I think a good start for winter diets would be a lower fat content especially one with lower saturated fat.

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Bill,

Please expand on your thoughts about a low fat diet. I have been following along thru this thread learning at almost every post. I probably have some things wrong and feel free to call me on it. I am here to learn.

My understanding so far is fish pretty much live off their fat when water temperatures drop and feeding slows. My thoughts then went to what would a winter diet consist of that slows that consumption of the built up fat. What would that diet need to be to "preserve" or "build " fat? I guess I was thinking you want a diet high in fat. What diet would slow the depletion of the stored fat?



Bill D. you took the words out of my mouth. That is also what I got from reading the material. Like maybe we needed a high fat diet going into winter, but it for sure needed to be the "right kind" of fat. The wrong kind would cause the fish to die. ??????????? Did I read everything wrong?

It appears to my non-expert self, that the safest "supplemental winter feeding" would be with supplemental fish. Like minnows or something that would represent very closely to the target fish own makeup.

Last edited by snrub; 12/17/14 09:12 AM.

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