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On 11/9/2011 6:09 PM, Paul MacDonald wrote:
> We caught only one trout - we should read my friend. It was a nice fat
> 35 cm rainbow.
> When he took it home and cleaned it, it was stuffed full of snails. I've
> caught trout
> with snails before but only in April. He caught the fish in 3 - 4 m of
> water and the fly was near the bottom.
> Snails are kind of a mystery to me- life cycle and so on- perhaps someone
> knows of a book to help me in my learning?
* the standard reference is...
Clarke, Arthur H. 1981. The Freshwater Molluscs of Canada. National
Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa. 446 pp.
...but you can probably narrow the choices from the eggbox photo in our
http://pinicola.ca/invert_Tay.pdf.
One occasionally hears these stories of Trout stuffed with snails - it
will be interesting to learn what species they are.
fred.
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