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Trout Fishing
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Uploaded on May 08, 2011Had an amazing day yesterday. I fish a private put-and-grow stream in Northern Iowa. The Iowa DNR must have recently stocked this stream with their annual fingerling trout. I caught 6 over 12 and one 17 (not to mention the little ones). This is the best day I've had on this stream by far. I say they must have stocked it recently because I kept the 17 and it had 4 fingerling trout in its belly and 1 black-nosed dace. This was the first fish I've kept on this stream. I have to wonder if most of the fingerlings stocked end up being food for the big fish in this stream.
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Sounds like a good day! congratz!
i would say they probably are ending up being food, trout are an aggressive fish, we catch a lot of them on rapalas they just smash them.
Problem with stocked fish is they are LOUSY fish to eat. Meat is generally whitish. They just don't get the protein in the fish ponds where they are raised on cheap grub. I'll pass on those trout. Nothin like my perch that I catch dunkin worms, and then it is back to trout, and release.
They are only raised to a fingerling then released into the stream. The survival rate has to be very low as evidence by the amount of little trout in this fish's belly. I haven't eaten it yet, but will keep this in mind.
Some of the worst looking trout meat comes from the big spawners that have served their purpose, and no longer worth keeping in the hatchery. They get released, and can be impressive to see on the end of your line, but the tails are generally beat up, and ragged indicating a hatchery pond fish, and poor quality table fair.
A hatchery program should raise fish to at least about 10" so the survival rate is greater, and of catchable size. On the lake I just concluded fishing the state plants rainbows 16", and they are huge around...small heads, and massive bodies. They plant them that size because the lake is located in a sanctuary, a state wildlife reserve, and in year's past the pelicans, and the cormorants have devastated their smaller fish plants. Makes for a great fishery.
On this stream the DNR hadn't stocked it for 3 years. I later did a fish sample with them. We found an abundance of natural reproduction, with a few nice fish pushing 20 inches. Pretty good for a stream that hasn't received any sort of habitat improvements. Hopefully that can be accomplished in the following years.
Rainbows, and trout in general do not turn carnivorous until they reach that 17-18" size...prior to that they are bug eaters...until they get big enough that they need more protein value. Hatchery dinks do not have the instincts that wild fish have either. They will swim up and look a Blue Heron right in the beak...see ya.
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Sounds like a good day! congratz!
i would say they probably are ending up being food, trout are an aggressive fish, we catch a lot of them on rapalas they just smash them.
Problem with stocked fish is they are LOUSY fish to eat. Meat is generally whitish. They just don't get the protein in the fish ponds where they are raised on cheap grub. I'll pass on those trout. Nothin like my perch that I catch dunkin worms, and then it is back to trout, and release.
They are only raised to a fingerling then released into the stream. The survival rate has to be very low as evidence by the amount of little trout in this fish's belly. I haven't eaten it yet, but will keep this in mind.
Some of the worst looking trout meat comes from the big spawners that have served their purpose, and no longer worth keeping in the hatchery. They get released, and can be impressive to see on the end of your line, but the tails are generally beat up, and ragged indicating a hatchery pond fish, and poor quality table fair.
A hatchery program should raise fish to at least about 10" so the survival rate is greater, and of catchable size. On the lake I just concluded fishing the state plants rainbows 16", and they are huge around...small heads, and massive bodies. They plant them that size because the lake is located in a sanctuary, a state wildlife reserve, and in year's past the pelicans, and the cormorants have devastated their smaller fish plants. Makes for a great fishery.
On this stream the DNR hadn't stocked it for 3 years. I later did a fish sample with them. We found an abundance of natural reproduction, with a few nice fish pushing 20 inches. Pretty good for a stream that hasn't received any sort of habitat improvements. Hopefully that can be accomplished in the following years.
Rainbows, and trout in general do not turn carnivorous until they reach that 17-18" size...prior to that they are bug eaters...until they get big enough that they need more protein value. Hatchery dinks do not have the instincts that wild fish have either. They will swim up and look a Blue Heron right in the beak...see ya.
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