Epicurean Angler-Matthew Supinski's Selectivity/Nexus Blog- Everything Trout/Steelhead/Salmon

Epicurean Angler-Matthew Supinski's Selectivity/Nexus Blog- Everything Trout/Steelhead/Salmon

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Next time you complain about wind!

                                           ( image by Jessica DeLorenzo- Tierra del Fuego)

Click on Vimeo link for  video




"The more we get to know Salmo trutta in their mysterious and ever changing selectivity modes , the more we realize we don't know anything about them" Supinski ( The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus (Skyhorse Publishing 2018)
This awesome Vimeo by Austin Trayser shared by the outstanding Venturing Angler page put out by Tim Harden ( Tim, I love your stuff btw!), shows pretty unusual trutta PFP behavior (predator foraging profiles)... And to think we bitch about a slight zephyr wind!
I've always been firmly convinced the lateral line sound vibration detection and neuromasts consisting of sensory cells, which detect water movement by deflection of cilia,and associated support and mantle cells on brown trout ( also on salar-Atlantic salmon), were freaked out by waves from boats, terrible waking wading habits, sloppy casts...think again!
A brown trout's niche exploitation "being in the right place at the right time " , can surely be explained rationally by genetic behavioral programming, diurnal and seasonal cycles, hormonal and ecosystem influences that are textbook. But there is a certain " wow!, that's amazing?" part of their behavior that defies odds of occurrence yet underlies meaning- ( Carl Jung's Synchronicity: Synchronizität) Kirk Deeter
( editor of TROUT magazine), told me about some quirky brown trout feeding in his article on Tasmania several issues back , check it out