What do trout eat?
Trout are basically carnivores. That is, they eat animals, not plants. Trout consume a wide variety of aquatic insects, flying insects, worms, frogs, frog eggs, smaller fish and other under water animal life forms. They can also be fed commercially prepared fish food or trout feed. Note that not all fish feed is trout feed. Some fish feed is a general purpose supplemental feed for fish (not specifically for trout). The advantage of general purpose fish feed over trout feed is that it is somewhat less expensive, and is all right to use as a small portion of the total trout diet. The disadvantage of general purpose fish feed in comparison with trout feed is that if it is too large a portion of a trout’s diet then the eating quality of the harvested trout will suffer and ultimately the health of the trout can suffer if very large portions of their diet is general purpose fish feed. Using trout feed avoids these problems, but costs more. I use Zeigler brand trout feed.
