Species hub
Rainbow trout: twelve scenarios, run through the model
Cold-water sight feeder with excellent colour vision. Small forage, and the least tolerant of anything that looks wrong.
- Optimum
- 14 °C
- Feeds between
- 1–22 °C
- Prey window
- 15–70 mm
- Wants wobble
- 2–6
- Reaction distance
- 1.8 m
- Aggression
- 0.55
- Scenarios
- 12
- Something eaten in
- 1 / 12
The scenario grid
Temperature bands sit on this species' own curve: cold is 5 °C, near optimum is 14 °C, too warm is 19 °C. Each cell links to the full ranking and names the top lure, or how far the best one got if nothing was eaten.
| Temperature | clear · neutral fish | clear · post-front | muddy · neutral fish | muddy · post-front |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold water5 °C | Best: trout minnowrefused, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowrefused, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowignored, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowignored, nothing eaten |
| Near optimum14 °C | Trout minnow2 of 11 eaten | Best: trout minnowrefused, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowfollowed, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowignored, nothing eaten |
| Too warm19 °C | Best: trout minnowrefused, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowrefused, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowignored, nothing eaten | Best: trout minnowignored, nothing eaten |
Which archetypes the model favours for rainbow trout
Across all twelve scenarios, these are the archetypes that got eaten at least once.
Other species
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Species values are working assumptions, not calibrated field measurements. See where this model is wrong.