Maurice
Administrator
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As others have said, stocked trout, especially bucket stocked tend to stay together. Because they have lived together for over a year. Spending all or at least 99% of their time looking at the tail-pipe of another trout they tend to become comfortable with tail-pipe envy. Because they very seldom are the "leader of the pack" in the sense of not seeing another tail-pipe, when they are placed in a stream in a group of 15-25 or 30, They find that their likelyhood of being in the front of the class is greater and they begin to circle the group to get a look at that tail-pipe again. This can bring their location from place to place with no particular rhyme or reason.
It is not until they are split up either through attrition or nutrition that they begin to act outside the group.
Think of it like graduation year at school...they were diploma-ed and are now having the graduation party....for how long is determined by the quality of the party and how well the school did to place the students.
Float stocking is a form of "job placement" that gets them on their feet earlier and acting like respectible members of the underwater stocked trout society.
What you have here Mute is a "McDonalds-esque" after-graduate occupation. Some will break out and some will just keep following the leader...until there are no leaders left...or until others show up.
As far as the spot that chose today...It like..."Dude...lets hang out here today...there ain't no pellets in the big pool...maybe they will fall here?" "Reicheous dude" Don't worry, tomorrow they will be somewhere else, where-ever the lead tailpipe takes them.
It is not until they are split up either through attrition or nutrition that they begin to act outside the group.
Think of it like graduation year at school...they were diploma-ed and are now having the graduation party....for how long is determined by the quality of the party and how well the school did to place the students.
Float stocking is a form of "job placement" that gets them on their feet earlier and acting like respectible members of the underwater stocked trout society.
What you have here Mute is a "McDonalds-esque" after-graduate occupation. Some will break out and some will just keep following the leader...until there are no leaders left...or until others show up.
As far as the spot that chose today...It like..."Dude...lets hang out here today...there ain't no pellets in the big pool...maybe they will fall here?" "Reicheous dude" Don't worry, tomorrow they will be somewhere else, where-ever the lead tailpipe takes them.
