Neat! I wonder if I could take a picture it? The difficulty is that the behaviour is usually\u00a0both\u00a0distant\u00a0and\u00a0ephemeral.<\/p>\n
On Saturday while on a beach at Procter, I again spotted a group of frenetically leaping fish. While the activity was well down the Lake, I just pointed my camera and clicked and clicked—maybe some pictures would work out. Two did—well, sort of. The distance made for rather low-resolution shots, but, they were good enough for plausible identification. Joe Thorley (of Poisson Consulting<\/a>)\u00a0has suggested that my pictures do indeed show Kokanee. Both the behaviour and look is characteristic of the smaller immature Kokanee\u00a0during their lake phase, a time when they are silverly and somewhat trout-like in shape, albeit slightly more streamlined. Further, it is likely that the predatory fish are trout, probably large Rainbow Trout.<\/p>\n So, these marginal shots likely show the frenzied fleeing of Kokanee from Rainbow Trout.<\/p>\n The first time I saw such a frenzy of fish breaching the water’s surface, I was\u00a0kayaking on the Persian Gulf. What in the world prompted all those fish to adopt such an odd behaviour? The next time I saw such … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/fleeingfish111203as2.jpg\")
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