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Quite a few Anglers over the last week have mentioned that some “big fish” waters have trout in them to very huge sizes, but fight very poor and to a certain extent are pointless?

Did you know!?

An interesting fact I have been told by fish farms (while studying) & knowledge gained while picking up my National Diploma in Fishery Management at Myerscough College. A bow of 15+lbs has roughly the same heart size as a trout of  2-4lb hence why the enormous trout at specialist big fish waters fight like many have described as a “sack of spuds!” With a tiny heart in comparison to their bodies it’s no wonder. A lot of these “monsters” fight poorly, unless their wild natural fish (which is near impossible in this country, for a wild brownie to grow to this size naturally).

The wild trout of the UK grow with their heart and not the other way round, i.e. forced to a ridiculous size by being fed high protein & high in fat trout pellets. A lot of the much larger fish lose condition very rapidly once the trout pellets stop becoming readily available, as very few trout waters across the UK have enough and a constant sustainable food source to support trout at the silly size of 20lb+.

Trout that are fed on pellets at a fish farm, almost become reliant on this as a food source, as soon as they are stocked they can start feeding after the initial shock to their systems.

However trout can take from 1day till a week (totally dependant on water temp & conditions at time of stocking), when they will naturally feed on whatever will be available within the water concerned. Losing their initial bulk slightly and then rebuilding and re-toning their bodies, a natural instinct kicks in “survival of the fittest mode” and they feed and experiment with different food types, i.e. goose feathers!?!?

Overstocked waters can have the opposite effect with stocking too dense per acre, waters various food sources can become stretched to the limit. Which causes fish to lose their size, become thin and loose weight around the stomach towards the anal fin, and generally loose their condition and become prone to infection and diseases.

Just think of a normal sized human being, and then a giant body builder, whose heart is the exact same size but has to work twice as hard to pump blood around the larger mass of their body. In the long run, damaging the heart muscle, causing all sorts of problems in later life. The exact same situation but in trout form, filling a trout full of protein and fatty packed pellets to give them bulk. Puts them at a major disadvantage to smaller fish, with a higher risk of health problems which could possibly weaken the immune system, causing parasites and fungal infections etc to be a more likely problem for the trout concerned.

The only exception to this heart growth, mitochondrial protein synthesis in rainbow trout is when the heart is enhanced in sexually mature males. However virtually all trout now stocked into trout waters are triploids (sexless).

(Protein Synthesis also plays a large part in the text mentioned above, water temp at time of growth etc.)

Just thought I would create a blog on this as a lot of anglers have asked and reported of such events.

Hope this information was useful, and helps those that asked the question/s.

Tight lines,

Nathan

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