Freshwater Snail.
A very important year round food of trout. Lochs with an abundance of snail can support a big population of trout and trout can grow big on them. The snails ive found in Shetland fish vary from small black ones a few mm wide up to large brown ones the size of my thumb nail . Black and peacock spider and variants there of tied to imitate general size profile and colour fished deep and slow. Trout feeding on snails can sometimes be hard to catch because they are feeding head down making deep and slow presentation important.
Small white pea mussels are also eaten by trout in large numbers on some lochs.
A very important year round food of trout. Lochs with an abundance of snail can support a big population of trout and trout can grow big on them. The snails ive found in Shetland fish vary from small black ones a few mm wide up to large brown ones the size of my thumb nail . Black and peacock spider and variants there of tied to imitate general size profile and colour fished deep and slow. Trout feeding on snails can sometimes be hard to catch because they are feeding head down making deep and slow presentation important.
Small white pea mussels are also eaten by trout in large numbers on some lochs.
