I observed some very interesting behaviour from some rainbows this weekend
that I thought I would pass on.
I took the kids to the ol Labor Day Weekend foodfest in Riverfront Park in
Spokane. After we were done eating, they wanted to go feed the ducks some
bread. Now these are very well fed ducks and get bread tossed at them
non-stop. The ducks must have been full because they weren't very interested
in our offerings. As the bread floated down stream, I saw a fish rise up to
it and take a chunk out of it. I thought I was seeing things so I sat and
watched for about 5 minutes. Fish after fish hit these chunks of bread on
the surface and many were really hard strikes. Once they bread sank, they
had no interest. Further downstream, I saw the same scenario and even one
young man, who was using bread on his hook, land a small rainbow about 10
inches long.
It was quite evident that like the ducks, these fish had figured out a
plentiful and easy food source. Guess I better start working on a chunk of
bread fly pattern!
Mike W.
Spangle, WA
