Now i'm no expert..........................However looking around now at some big waters completely freezing over and watching a forecast that the freeze could be on for another couple of weeks at least, brings a question to mind.

We know that the wee brownies are 'ard as nails but i seem to remember some years ago an old work mate who was a syndicate member of a Rainbow water in Renfrew telling me something along the lines that Rainbows will die in these conditions.

I reckon many will be lost during most winters every year as it is.

Question is, could it be game over for the stock on the smaller dub ponds due to lack of oxygen ?

I understand some fishery owners will be breaking the ice if they can, but what about the club waters off the tracks etc ?

Now i'm 99% a wild brown trout angler, but any answers like "who cares?" and i'll report you to admin.

If you look at some of the commercial fishing trips on the forum to places like Kamchatka ......... you'll be fishing for wild Rainbows.

That is the same in the States. Believe me in general Rainbows have come from harder climes.

A winter in Kamchatka is a bit more than 6" of snow.

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I understand that Carlos, but I'm not thinking about wild fish in their natural habitat, I'm thinking stockies in man made waters.

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I don't think this is the case. As Carlos indicates, Rainbow's are cold loving fish which survive really big freeze conditions in North America and Canada (and I've found are condusive`to being caught in colder weather in this country).
I've always thought that more fish perish during hot UK summers than during cold winter conditions.
Having said that the guy next to me at work left early today to make a hole in his pond ice for the benefit of his Koi Carp (or to feed passing Heron's?)....

cares who

na im sure they can, but maybe to an extent?? not sure tho
Ali

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As long as the fisheries are frozen over the Cormorants are going hungry and that doesn't make me one bit sad

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Depends on the depth of a water also,a shallow water of say 3ft deep if all that freezes then yes,but that is very extreme and never going to happen.
rainbows are as someone said cold blooded and will not suffer ,not all are just holes in the ground,there has to be water to feed into them somewhere,be it underground springs,bore holes,burns,rivers and so on which will generate oxygen.
Oxygen can be put in also with the use of pumps.
Some will die,mainly due to nature and also as their immune system at this time of year is low in the females ,not the triploid. and any damaged fish will die off,which can only be good leaving only hardend fish remaining.
Good for anglers when it clears.

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Amen to that, provided they don't nip over to my burns and rivers.

who cares....

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Don't worry, the burns and rivers are icing over nicely, at least in this normally temperate part of the West!