What do community pond trout eat?

[Envenomation09]

For those who eat the fish in the ponds, what do you usually find in their stomachs? I am not really sure what they eat so if I knew what they eat I could use those types of flies.
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[flygoddess]

Haresears, Pheasant Tails, Chironomids all the time. Wooly buggers in Olive and Black a definite shot as well.
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[Springbuck]

Well, in a real sense, they HAVE to eat what's there. Prospect with things like hare's ears, prince nymphs, etc, and turn a rock or two over at the edge.

There is often not a ton to eat in the park ponds and the like, but it is funny how naie e fish can be put.in them, and suddenly they are hard to catch. Also, generic brown, grey, hurl, green, black wet flies are good prospecting types.
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[Flyfishinglover]

Bwo, scuds, leech, woolly bugger, prince nymph, copper John, and crawdad.
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[remo_5_0]

Fish pellets from the hatchery[crazy]
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[Delement87]

bread?
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[chickscanfish2]

I was going to say "pellets" as well. They eat bread, dog food, leftover bags of chips, cookies, crackers, sandwiches, anything the kids throw in the lake. But, they also eat the bugs. Eeeeeeew! [crazy]
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[BagABigOne]

Marshmallows
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[DKStroutfitter]

Tons of Power Bait.
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Planter bows are notorious for being attracted to bright colors. Flies like a royal coachman or anything else with dabs of hot red, orange or chartreuse. I hear tell the psycho prince nymph is often effective.

They also hit flies and jigs in all white. Maybe they think they are bread or marshmallows. No class.
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[Fishrmn]

Jeez. What do they think they are? White Bass or sumpin?
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[chickscanfish2]

This is hilarious. This post made my day. "no class". HAHAHA!!![laugh]
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[albinotrout]

Early last month my daughter caught a bow on powerbait and I caught a couple on a spinner.
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[ProfessorChaos]

Ha yeah, lots of green and rainbow powerbait. I don't fly fish too often, but I've pulled a wooly bugger behind a bubble in several of these ponds and its always worked. Though I will admit I know next to nothing about fly fishing.
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[TubeDude]

[quote Fishrmn]Jeez. What do they think they are? White Bass or sumpin?[/quote]

[cool][#0000ff]Here we go again...getting all anthropomorphic and giving human characteristics to non-human life forms.

Just pullin' yer chain. I don't do the lol thing.

In truth, hatchery pet rainbows are instinctively programmed to munch first and hope for the best. In their crowded pools and raceways they must act fast to eat every available morsel...before any of their fellow eating machines beats them to it.

Once they are dumped into their angler-ridden environment they must subsist on whatever food they can find...even though it is often vastly different from the yummy pellets they learned to love in the hatchery. Some make the transition to bugs and such fairly quickly and may even become a bit selective. In more sterile environments they just keep swimming around and sampling whatever they can get in their mouths...cigarette filters and other non-nutritive items included.

But one trait I have learned to rely on when fishing for the various strains of rainbows is that they almost universally respond to HOT colors. Flame red, blaze orange and fluorescent chartreuse flies and lures generally stimulate a reaction bite. And this is not only among newly planted hatchery pets. I have also done well on bright colors for wild rainbows in remote lakes and rivers. And the big steelhead (rainbows) are well known for hitting bright colors...whether along the Pacific Coast, the Great Lakes, New Zealand or in any of the other waters into which they have been introduced around the world.

I ain't a purist and I ain't a snob. I enjoy almost any kind of fishing...wherever and whenever I can find it. So on those occasions when I am faced with playing with hatchery pet rainbows...or going fishless...I jump right in and get my enjoys. After all, I can make pretend they are just baby steelhead or something. Us angler types are good at fantasy.
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[hogstalker]

Purina fish chow
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[flygoddess]

[quote Envenomation09]For those who eat the fish in the ponds, what do you usually find in their stomachs? I am not really sure what they eat so if I knew what they eat I could use those types of flies.[/quote]


I take it a few missed this part. I hit the pond yesterday. My choices were the pick. Lotsa trout while others watched. For dries, Elk Hair Caddis however the small Bluegill do like the Royal Wulff.
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[brendensmithh]

bread..
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[BagABigOne]

I do have flies that would pass for pink marshmallows. I tied them to use as strike indicators with a hook after I had fish bite my strike indicators instead of my flies.

I guess they could also be a big egg pattern.
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[flygoddess]

Do they work?
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