Originally Posted By: Bill D.
Originally Posted By: timshufflin
I'm very curious about this. I can't even get my rainbows, all over 18", to eat my fathead minnows. I've not found one minnow in one single trout I've caught. They won't even bite on a fathead if I use one for bait. I'm sure they must eat a few, I just can't prove it. The brown trout I have are another story.


TS,
FWIW As a newbie, this is probably a naive view but what the heck, I have been wrong on most stuff so this just adds to the list. IMHO My thought is a pond is like a restaurant and the fish are the customers. They look over the menu and pick what they want to eat. Must be something in the pond they prefer to FHM if they are not eating them. You say there are no minnows in the RBT stomachs; what is?

Captwho,

So IMHO, if BG, that will fit in the RBT's mouth, is the the best thing on the menu, they will nail them.



Trout chow is in their stomach, floating trout chow.

I just got a new pond, I made it twice because I aint so bright.