Cecil and others give me your thoughts. I have a 1/2 acre trout pond with all the gadgets to have an almost perfect enviroment. Tons of fathead minnows and everything in between. I love to bar-b-q a few to keep numbers in check. What really has me curious is when i clean one i always to a cowboy autopsy and see what is in their lower gut. I rarely find a fathead in the gut. Always snails, and water bugs. Do trout really prefer other forage to fatheads or are they lazy and don't want to work to catch the harder to stalk minnows. Anyone do any research on the preference of food choices of Steelheads and rainbow. Jeff