Hi Jerry, let me clarify my point regarding marrow spoons and stomach pumps. The stomach pump is a small length of hollow plastic tube which slides down into the stomach, a suction is created from a plastic device on one end which is squeezed. Water enters the stomach when the end is squeezed and when it is released the water enters the pump again along with whatever critters the fish has been feeding on. When fishing the reservoirs in England in the Summer it is often vital to know what they are feeding on, even down to the colour and size of buzzer (I think you call them chironomids).
Cheers Chris > Both have the same effects and end product. > > By killing the trout? I've never used a stomach pump. Does the trout > live? go hungry? > > Is that what catch and release means? Catch the trout, pump it's stomach, > release it, so there's at least one hungry trout willing to bite again. > > Jerry > WY
