I caught my first trout on a flyrod today!!! It was so cool. They were not just dumped off the truck. I had to work for them. My only trout fishin has been spinning rod “shoot em in the barrel fresh off the truck” One of them was 13 inches long and really put up a fight on my 4wt. I caught them on some flies that some fellow FAOL anglers sent me. I took them home and took a sharp knife and kinda butterflyed em. Rolled them in cornmeal, papriki, and salt. Fried them in a iron skillet till golden brown. Wife, son and I loved them. I had always heard that stocked trout we not that great to eat. The only way I have ever cooked them was on the grill. I’ll take mine fried from now on. I fished a smallmouth stream in the morning and caught a 13" inch LM bass on a gurgle pop. He wasn’t any slouch either in the fighting department. Fished a trout stream (or the closest thing to a trout stream in my area) in the afternoon. It was a awesome day for me.
Here is my dumb question. I checked the stomach of the biggest trout and it had two beetles and a bunch of vegetation. What is up with the vegetation. Please nobody say “cause they ate it”
Here is my dumb question. I checked the stomach of the biggest trout and it had two beetles and a bunch of vegetation. What is up with the vegetation. Please nobody say “cause they ate it”
Not a dumb question at all, don’t you eat salad with your meat:D
It could very well be the vegetation your finding is a home ( Case ) that the immature insect (nymph) lived or lives in. The fish know this and eat the case and all.
Was the vegetation stick looking or grassy… Fish will actually rummage
tail sometimes partially out of the water if shallow enough while
hunting the fauna for insects. This is called tailing.
Where spring creeks are thick with weeds this happens all the time.
Most often fish will be tailing out along sand bars there you find small
rocks within them some of these pebbles are casings from the caddis larvae.
Very normal fish feeding this way with nose down and tail up.
It is not uncommon to find all sorts of stream bed materials in their stomachs.
I would definitely tie up some beetles and head back to that location…
Congratulations! That size for pan frying in butter and garlic is excellent. Now, you’ll just have to copy some of those flies and do it again, and again, and …
I’ve seen trout at Big Spring Creek in PA grazing in vegetation for cressbugs. They looked like parrottfish munching on a coral reef, wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up ingesting some of it. Congrats on the trout, hope it’s the first of many.