What bait do cherry salmon eat?
Do cherry salmon coming up the river eat anything or not? If they eat, what kind of bait? Do they change immediately after they swim up or gradually? I had no answer but just guessed. If I have right answers they will be a great help to decide how to fish and what fly to choose. I wanted to know all means. Even if cherry salmon eat nothing after they come up the river, they will keep the life style in the sea for a while like Pavlov’s dog. It was why I chose Aquamarine, which fortunately was very successful. But at that time I did not exactly know why. Now that I caught 4 cherry salmon I checked inside their stomachs. The first one had nothing in it. The second one had some scrap but I was not sure what it was. Checking the third and forth ones made me surprised. Their stomachs had not only some scrap of algae but also a lot of nymphs. Most of them were as small as size 12 or 14 hook. What poor meal they have! Imagine how big they are and how much they eat in the sea. They try perfect