Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Dead Brown Trout

I doubt it was a disease, and I doubt that it was a pellet feeding problem. I have a pond that is about 3/4 acre now and I only feed in one area. ALL the trout can find the feed no problem.

That trout grew to that length on pellets at the fish supplier, so it's not the pellets. It may be too late now, but it's possible that the trout ate something that blocked it's intestine, stopping it from receiving any nourishment from anything that it ate. I've seen trout eat cigarette butts, etc., etc. Bob Lusk had a picture of a LMB somewhere here that was plugged up from eating a discarded plastic bait and that LMB looked like the trout.