10-31-2006, 04:02 PM
An interesting discussion. In two studies, one in the 1980's and one just a couple of years ago, both showed very little use of bait fish or game fish as food in Henrys Lake. By far, the most abundant food for the fish there are scuds. I helped with the study in the 1980's and we collected hundreds of fresh guts from the cleaning buckets of Wild Rose and Staleys. We found less than 1% of the guts had minnows in them. Most of the minnows appeared in brook trout, not hybrids or cutts.
Lures shaped like minnows has a lot more movement than minnows themselves. This would tend to attract the fish as an "attractor" lure. I do not believe that they feed on them because the fish think that it is a minnow.
Henrys has two types of dace, two types of shinners, chub minnows as well as all the trout minnows that could want. If all of the other food sources disappeared, then we would see fish feed on minnows. I read a study a few years ago that indicated that in deep lakes, fish are forced to feed on other fish while in shallow lakes they have many more food choices that is preferred.
Good Luck,
Bill
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Lures shaped like minnows has a lot more movement than minnows themselves. This would tend to attract the fish as an "attractor" lure. I do not believe that they feed on them because the fish think that it is a minnow.
Henrys has two types of dace, two types of shinners, chub minnows as well as all the trout minnows that could want. If all of the other food sources disappeared, then we would see fish feed on minnows. I read a study a few years ago that indicated that in deep lakes, fish are forced to feed on other fish while in shallow lakes they have many more food choices that is preferred.
Good Luck,
Bill
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