Tackle for calcasieu lake

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Originally Posted by Goooh

Interesting.


I've caught many many trout dragging slow on bottom, not sure how they found it now.

so have I, because they were on the bottom and saw it moving in front of them looking straight ahead but trout don't swim around looking down under them, they feed on whats in front of them or above them.

its all relative to water depth, in 3 to 4 feet of water just about everything is straight ahead in their sight of vision so there really is no up or down other then surface lures for top water but in deeper water like 5 feet or more then they start picking zones they stay at to forage for food weather that be middle, bottom, or along the surface.

when you catch trout on the bottom it isn't because they are looking down and went down there to get the bait, its because they were already on the bottom weather to stay warm in cold weather or just because that's how they were feeding that day but they were still looking straight in front of them not looking down to feed. a trouts mouth isn't shaped right for sucking up baits off the bottom that's why reds and drums have down turned mouths, because they need to suck up baits feeding off of the bottom.

if you want to argue evolution of fish and how they evolved to use the feeding habits and patterns they follow you will have to do that with mathgeek not me, he can get you all the technical data you might need to be convinced.