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What trout eats? Stomach content
from a few fish, which help explain why flyfishing is so efficient :
aquatic insects, larva, nymphs, leeches, fallings terrestrials are all
part of the trout food. The trout is opportunistic and grab what is on or in the water. On the right a close up picture of a nice ant |
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Left, dipterae, midges and gnat together with nymphs
and a leech , the hook is a n°
14 3X. Right, a sialis nymph and the head and thorax of a dragonfly nymph. Size 12 hook. |
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Left, 2 damselflies nymph and a small coleopter.(beetle) Right, chironomidae larvae, the hook is size n°18, The trout was full of these larvae, but changed for an "Hare's ear" on a size 14 hook! |
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Left, more chiromidae of different colors. Right : A large leech and a midge |
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Left, beetles and a large ant Right, a caddis nymph, swallowed with its protective case. |
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a mountain lake on a windy day, the trout, caught on a size 10
beadhead brown woolybugger, had 5 or 6 of these big beetles
( more than 1cm in length) in the stomach.
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