03-10-2009, 02:25 AM
I agree with you flygoddess, cutties aren't very pisciverous, even in rivers as far as I know, although I have also caught a ton of them on lures. from what I can tell, fish have their prefered food items that they look for, but if they see an easy meal like an injured bait fish, which most lures are designed to imitate, they will often take advantage of it.
I have often wondered if that is why they still manage the south fork of the snake for browns as well as cutts. The cuts eat more bugs and the browns eat more bait fish, although there is obviously some overlap. If this were true the competition would be less between the two species, whereas the rainbows fall somewhere in the middle which would cause more competition (I know that the main reason for trying to give the rainbows the boot is hybridization, before somebody calls me an idiot [
]) Any way, sorry to ramble, I'm just thinking outloud and wondering if anybody else has any insights.
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I have often wondered if that is why they still manage the south fork of the snake for browns as well as cutts. The cuts eat more bugs and the browns eat more bait fish, although there is obviously some overlap. If this were true the competition would be less between the two species, whereas the rainbows fall somewhere in the middle which would cause more competition (I know that the main reason for trying to give the rainbows the boot is hybridization, before somebody calls me an idiot [
]) Any way, sorry to ramble, I'm just thinking outloud and wondering if anybody else has any insights.[signature]