Although I've spooned many fish in tadpole infested stillwaters, I have never found a single tadpole on the spoon. I have heard that they vile to trout and therefore avoided. I have also heard that they turn to mush quickly in their stomachs but that they do eat them. The way I see it is this.....there are so many tadpoles in the margins sometimes that if they did want them, you would see fish actively attacking them, swirling in the margins taking them.I have never witnessed this. Surely they woud be an easy target and abundant food source. I would expect to find a lot of tadpoles in spooned fish if they were a food source. What do you think? Does anybody have concrete evidence that they are eaten by trout in numbers?

A dont know where you fish , but up our club water you can constantly see the fish smashing into them when there in the margins , The Browns especially

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I've caught brownies full of frog tadpoles in mountain lakes.

I don't know if fish find toad tadpoles are less edible though.

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100% yes mate,had tadpole and small frogs out fish at Fairlie Moor
now(Glenburn) And had great sport at New Haylie with small tadpole patterns.
John

They feast on them. Stocks or wild.

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Has anybody spooned them out of fish?

My observations are exactly the same as yours.

Perhaps they attack them, maybe even try one out (accounts for the swirling) but avoid them after that. Surely Mother Nature would dictate that these vulnerable creatures would have some kind of protection against predation...the toad does. I know there are large numbers of them but they're sitting targets. The gulls would eat them! The crows would have them too wouldn't miss out!

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