Restocking a lake with trout - GIF

**Jon** · May 15, 2020, 05:56 PM

Restocking a lake with trout. I like how some of the fish are trying to swim back up the pipe.

Previously:

Whooshh tubes for transporting live fish - GIF, image, video
Fishing invasive species with electricity - GIF
That one guy who always scares the fish - GIF
Fishing with an umbrella - GIF
Rapid team tuna fishing - GIF

**Frank S** · May 15, 2020, 08:55 PM

In the past I have had a couple of stock ponds stocked with fingerling catfish up to 10" long the hatchery truck always tried to get as close as possible to the water to reduce stress placed on the young fish

**toeless joe** · May 15, 2020, 10:38 PM

The ones trying to swim back up the pipe sure got run over in a hurry, kinda like turning the wrong way up a one way street.

**baja** · May 17, 2020, 09:40 AM

That`s a lot of fish for a small lake.

**Scotsman Hosie** · May 22, 2020, 03:09 AM

Originally Posted by toeless joe

The ones trying to swim back up the pipe sure got run over in a hurry, kinda like turning the wrong way up a one way street.

Jesus H... with a run that long it's trial-by-ordeal for those poor trout.

Fish instinctively try to swim 'upstream.' Too bad they can't come up with a way to let 'em do just that. Like maybe introducing them into a slow-suction line – coming from the lake – and a return flow line, sans any fish.

Same thing happens to birds that get into uncovered exhaust venting. They'll inevitably move upstream, 'till things come to a sudden stop – once they've stuck their heads in the blower.