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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)
Guest
The other day whilst I was packing my gear after a reasonable morning's success with the fly rod, I was taken by the number of trout jumping clear of the water to catch terrestrial insects, including adult damsel fliesthat where flying over the water's surface.
Some of these trout were jumping at least 5 feet out of the water and grabbing with pin point accuracy damsel flies which were flying erratically over the water.
Now think about this: A trout laying at about 12 inches below the water's surface has to maneouvre itself into position and with the power of its body leap high into the air and grab a flying insect. Not only that, the fish has toestimate where the insect will be when it jumps. Now the refractive index of water is different to that of air and obviously distances from under water look different to what they are. That makes what these rainbow trout were achieving even more remarkable.
I sat down and thought hard about what was happening all about me. Now I have fishing in umpteen different countries for lots of different species of fish and I have never seen a display of speed, power and sheer accuracy of sightingto equalthese rainbow trout. And they were all rainbow trout that I saw,I am sure of that.
I came to the reinforcement of a conclusion I made many years ago. Rainbow trout have probably the best eyesight of any fish in freshwater!
But what do you think?
Some of these trout were jumping at least 5 feet out of the water and grabbing with pin point accuracy damsel flies which were flying erratically over the water.
Now think about this: A trout laying at about 12 inches below the water's surface has to maneouvre itself into position and with the power of its body leap high into the air and grab a flying insect. Not only that, the fish has toestimate where the insect will be when it jumps. Now the refractive index of water is different to that of air and obviously distances from under water look different to what they are. That makes what these rainbow trout were achieving even more remarkable.
I sat down and thought hard about what was happening all about me. Now I have fishing in umpteen different countries for lots of different species of fish and I have never seen a display of speed, power and sheer accuracy of sightingto equalthese rainbow trout. And they were all rainbow trout that I saw,I am sure of that.
I came to the reinforcement of a conclusion I made many years ago. Rainbow trout have probably the best eyesight of any fish in freshwater!
But what do you think?