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Stuart Dickinson

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Tadpoles???
« on: May 10, 2013, 11:52:19 AM »

Hiked into Edith Lake with a buddy yesterday.  Few guys out in pontoons who were doing well.  Tough fishing from shore, only a couple of spots to roll cast and one to cast properly. Managed to hook 3, land 2 in a couple of hours once I got dialed in.  Small shrimp pattern inched along the bottom got them all. 

Very interesting - there were a TON of tadpoles in the water, and I wondered to myself if the fish ever eat them.  Well, one of the fish I caught had a belly FULL of them, like over 20, + a ton of little tiny, tiny shrimp, almost looked like pink/translucent chironomids.  Never seen/heard of trout eating tadpoles before.

The other interesting thing was to compare an over-wintered fish to a freshly stocked one.  The hatchery stocked fish's flesh was literally grey in colour as compared to the over-wintered fish which was bright and orange.
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Re: Tadpoles???
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2013, 12:13:23 PM »

Apparently tadpoles give trout a tummy ache. Bass seem to like 'em.
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Re: Tadpoles???
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2013, 02:20:40 PM »

In my books tadpoles it  rainbow trout. 8) :)
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