What's on the Menu?
Here we are collating photos of food items available to Loch Eye trout as we capture them (the photos that is!). We have made a stab at indentification where we can, but are not experts in this field, so if you can provide a better identification of any of these creatures, please let us know.
If you witness anything unusual in terms of trout feeding behaviour, hatches etc or capture any images yourself of trout food items, please get in touch, we would love to hear about it and feature your photos.
To keep this page size manageable we have restricted the number of photos for each animal class, or order of insects. Our board on Pinterest is more extensive:
Follow TroutQuest's Loch Eye Menu board on Pinterest.
Many of the photos below were taken with a compact camera, so are not of the best quality, but we hope they stimulate some ideas for tactics and fly patterns. All of the photos below were taken at Loch Eye.
Invertebrates
Arthropods
Insects (Aquatic)
True/Flat-winged Flies (Diptera)
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| Emerging Adult Midge | Apple Green Midge | Brown Midge | Brown Midge Pupa Shuck |
Olives/Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
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| Emerging Olive dun | Lake Olive dun | Lake Olive dun | Lake Olive spinner |
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| Caenis hatch | Caenis duns | Caenis dun shucks | Caenis spinner fall |
Sedges/Caddis (Trichoptera)
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| Grouse Wing Sedge | Grouse Wing Sedges | unknown sedge | unknown sedge |
Alderflies (Megaloptera)
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| Alder Fly* | Alder Fly* |
Damsels and Dragonflies (Odonata)
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| Damsel Nymph | Hatching Damselfly | Damsel nymph shucks | Common Blue Damselfly |
Water Bugs (Hemiptera)
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| Corixa (Water Boatmen) |
Beetles (Coleoptera)
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Miscellaneous
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| Red Water Mite |
Insects (Terrestrial)
True/Flat-winged Flies (Diptera)
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| Hawthorn Fly | Hawthorn Flies | Crane Fly | Crane Fly |
Beetles (Coleoptera)
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| Leaf Beetle |
Miscellaneous
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| Wood Wasp/Horntail? | Fairy Moth? |
Crustaceans
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| Freshwater Shrimp | Water Hoglouse/Water Slater |
Molluscs
Snails
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Annelids
Leeches
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| Leech |
Vertebrates
Fish
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| Stickleback shoal* | Stickleback | Stickleback | No prizes what was for lunch! |
Amphibians
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NB: Images marked * are ©Colin Riach
To see how some of these creatures swim, check out the short video below:
