Oct 23

Written by: KenP
10/23/2008 9:18 PM

I had a theory about spawning behavior and thought that I might have been on to something....and then someone else commented about my theory and now I have two theories.  I thought that maybe the browns or suckers were spawning and the trout activity on eating eggs was related to that.  My good friend Ed G thinks that the fish are still so dumb that newly stocked trout just identify with the egg as a source of food and eat it while ignoring naturals.  His theory is based on the fact that other fish, smallmouth, blue gill, rock bass and the like still eat the eggs patterns and the natural and the newly spawned trout don't recognize natural food but do recognize eggs so they are patterned to eat them.  Well this morning they were eating eggs - washed out yellow and orange ones and so were the smallmouth on the White Clay Creek , a Delaware river in the pools below London Tract Bridge.  Its a good thing too since since casting into the howling wind and the falling leaves made target casting impossible.  Just get the egg pattern in the water and let it drift.  The fish cooperated with the rest.  A leaf hopper pattern also seemed to get their attention and I caught two fish using a size 16. 

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