Why do so many people think all trout eat baitfish?? Our trout eat bugs......only. Only the big dollies and char eat baitfish like kokanee or whitefish or peamouth. Rainbows and brookies here never eat other fish. At least I've never caught any that have, and I've caught a lot of trout.
Man it never ceases to amaze me that trout from different areas differ so much. The only trout in BC that will actively seek out baitfish are the big rainbows in the Babine and other such rivers that are following the salmon fry migrations and the coastal cutts that do the same thing.In the central interior where I am, the trout, no matter what the size, eat bugs.....dragons...damsels......leeches....shrimp ......chronnys.....mayflies...etc. I've seen 8 pound plus rainbows consistently taken on size 12 chronomids.It's crazy how the techniques differKRIS
Why would a big ol bow chase a minnow around when there are clouds of scuds who couldn't try if they wanted to actually escape?? I think this is why mere puddles around here have a habit of growning big rainbows and browns.