Soft Plastics and fish

[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.