Hungry fish 4/14/14

[Cuz]

Shifted gears and went to the Pequest River this afternoon. Fished right in town. Eight casts, four keepers and lost four more. I then caught four more keeping two bigger ones to fill my limit. All this with-in an hours time.
All fish caught on fat butterworms from www.Elliotsbutterworms.com The last two hundred were the biggest I ever received. Many are 1/14" long and 3/16 wide. Must be a good weather season in Chile where they are hand picked in the wild. It makes a big difference to the fish. I noticed the smaller ones don't attract like the big ones unless I use two small ones. I'm outfishing everyone I know using butterworms.
While cleaning my fish I noticed some corn in two of them. PLEASE DON"T USE CORN! The trout can't pass the kernels and will die. I know corn is a good bait but why kill fish you either chummed up or lost. Use yellow power bait instead.

[revhi]

I dont trout fish, but I found what you said interesting and came across this about corn and trout.

http://fishandboat.com/images/pages/.../corn_chum.htm

[Cuz]

Originally Posted by revhi

I dont trout fish, but I found what you said interesting and came across this about corn and trout.

http://fishandboat.com/images/pages/.../corn_chum.htm

Thank you very much for taking the time to go through the trouble finding this information. It was interesting.
But I still know that corn is not a natural food in a stream. I also would bet that because it can't be digested easily, it clogs the digestive tract for the natural food to pass through. I have found corn many times in trout stomachs before. Always in whole condition. Never found a piece half digested or in a soft form.

There are many other baits that catch trout. Salmon eggs, power bait, butterworms, mealworms, garden worms, live and salted minnows, fake flies and nymphs, and lures of all types. It takes a real fisherman to figure it out.
Every day is different.

Corn is a shortcut to putting your time in. After the trout get use to feeding on the natural food, corn doesn't work very well. It's the new dumb hatchery fish that don't know the difference.