Soft Plastics and fish

[Raven]

well even canadian geese who are mainly grass eating birds die when they eat wonder bread thrown to them by well meaning humans because it has so few nutrients left in it... it turns into a plastic wad in their intestine and plugs them up...

fish don't seem to have much trouble regurgitating stomach contents so i think it's a non issue... i haven't seen any photo's of dissected fish entrails that are clogged with plastics to prove this theory .... so i call it Peta

[Headhunter]

From quite an exstensive crosssection the only things that I ever found in a stripers stomach that wasn't suppossed to be there are remnants of dunking, and once I found a hook. PETA

[Crafty Angler]

I saw a stockie a few years back that turned out to have a 5" Senko in it's gullet after it was filleted - so yeah, it does happen

[FishermanTim]

Ok, so some trout hav been known to ingest rubber lures.
But in the article and examples provided here, they seem to be "stocked" trout.
If you see the feeding habit of stocked trout, they are typically fed in bulk and feed voraciously. That would account for their ingesting a loy of plastics along with food. Releasing a stocked trout into a brook or stream doesn't change that feeding habit for quite some time.
That's why people will follow the stocking trucks, because they know the trout will hit practically anything they throw at them.

Now if they had done a study of native/wild trout, and came up with the same conclusions, I'd be more inclined to agree with their assessment.
That's part of the reason why I don't follow the trucks, and give a particular body of water a couple of weeks for the fish to get acclimated to the environment.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

Ok, so some trout hav been known to ingest rubber lures.
But in the article and examples provided here, they seem to be "stocked" trout.
If you see the feeding habit of stocked trout, they are typically fed in bulk and feed voraciously. That would account for their ingesting a loy of plastics along with food. Releasing a stocked trout into a brook or stream doesn't change that feeding habit for quite some time.
That's why people will follow the stocking trucks, because they know the trout will hit practically anything they throw at them.

Now if they had done a study of native/wild trout, and came up with the same conclusions, I'd be more inclined to agree with their assessment.
That's part of the reason why I don't follow the trucks, and give a particular body of water a couple of weeks for the fish to get acclimated to the environment.

Very well said.