I saw some trout, like pretty big ones too maybe 1.5 feet long, in a shallow mountain pond. deepest point at maybe 2 feet deep, 9000 feet in the mountains.
i’m just curious as to what happens to the trout when the pond freezes over in the colorado winter. the pond definatly will freeze, do the fish just go with it and wake up in spring?
Most fish escape to deeper waters before the freeze over and continue doing what fish do. Some hibernate and some, well they just end up being bear food in the spring.
28.August, 2009 um 1:37 pm
Most fish escape to deeper waters before the freeze over and continue doing what fish do. Some hibernate and some, well they just end up being bear food in the spring.
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28.August, 2009 um 2:09 pm
not many lakes freeze *solid*. the trout live underneath the water and they do fine. there food is underwater anyway and they just keep on going — try fly fishing youll see.. the trouts where i live are almost as frisky when we pull them out of an ice hole as they are when we catch them in summer!
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28.August, 2009 um 2:33 pm
water has to be flowing for a trout to live and as u know water cant freez when it moves so the fish move up stream to higher curents some times
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28.August, 2009 um 2:58 pm
When trout die from freeze over’s it is usually not from being frozen solid, when shallow lakes freeze too much the lake runs out of oxygen at the bottom and the fish die.
The trout you seen in that small pond will not be there when the rains come in the fall.
They will be in a river or stream system during the winter and when the stream or river dries up in the summer the trout will find the deepest holes (ponds) and the cycle will repeat.
I grew up in Utah and seen the same thing up in the mountains there.
Lucky for you, you live in an awesome place!
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