In heavily populated trout streams, a great deal of the piscivorous feeding behavior is bass-on-bass, brook-on-brook, and brown-on-brown violence . . . in other words, it’s cannibalism. (Jay Nichols photo)
The fish we most love to catch eat MEAT. By meat, I mean other fish. Fish that feed on other fish are technically referred to as piscivores. If you’ve ever thrown a Rapala at it, or jerked a giant streamer past it, that fish is a piscivore. But that’s only part of the whole meat-eating story. In heavily populated trout streams, a great deal of the piscivorous feeding behavior is bass-on-bass, brook-on-brook, and brown-on-brown violence . . . in other words, it’s cannibalism.
Some people might view cannibalism as evolution’s...