Originally Posted by esshup
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.

The brown trout were only put in at a maximum size of 12 inches around, so it definitely had to grow to that size eating something. However the only thing I thought of other than a blockage is that it was eating natural food and that food got depleted by the bass and so it had nothing to eat. Although, you would think it would find the pellets like the other trout. The only reason I thought it might not have found the pellets is because I did start pellet feeding only when the bass became an issue which was a couple years after I put in the original brown trout. I'm probably thinking it was a blockage based on what people are saying because like you said it should have been able to find the pellets anyways. Thanks for your reply and advice.

Adam

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