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There's alot of corn talk lately.. I don't ever use corn, mostly because I don't target trout. But it got me thinking about it. It seems when I lived close to Wyoming (I used to get a license every year) corn was illegal there. I think I heard that fish can't digest it, and if they eat too much it will kill them. Does anyone know if it's true?
If a fish eats too much of anything it will die. Corn in moderation is no problem. Its mostly BS , like lead shot. Something the PETAS can complain about. Try corn soaked with fish scent oil. A little goes a long way.
Just some thoughts on the topic...Corn does not hurt bears, raccoons, or humans.It doesn't have any nutritional value to trout.Look inside of a trouts stomach and see sticks, stones, hemlock leaves, exoskeletons of crayfish, insects, and invertebrates.Corn does not "swell" in a trouts stomach and kill them...a trout's body temperature is regulated by the temp of the water it is in. Aren't they always colder then bears, raccoons, and people? A person's body temp is 98.6° - that will ferment and swell corn if anything will. I certainly don't think a trouts body temp would get that high. A trout in water that warm is already dead."Swelling" is caused by fermenting which is not very likely caused by a trout's body temperature.Besides...it passes right through you and I most times why not a trout?
I kill plenty of birds with steel...never known anything different, the corn debate is in my opinion a dead horse...
Shoot the right shot then and learn to shoot faster loads and don't worry about poising the environment.