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<blockquote data-quote="Trip McNeely" data-source="post: 420508" data-attributes="member: 728"><p>I can’t say for certain but I’m wondering it’s one of two things. 1) Cisco populations aren’t dense enough to make them an abundant food source as compared to peck. 2) smelt are much more abundant than on peck and easier for salmon to gorge on so they focus their energy on smelt as forage and follow the smelt. In the end the salmon spend more time gorging on lesser energy food source so growth rates slow as compared to peck. Kinda like filling up on popcorn so you don’t eat your steak at a restaurant. Missing out on the better nutrients for growth because the popcorn is in front of your face and easy to get at. This may also explain why they seem sometimes very fickle and harder to catch than it is seemingly at Peck. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Man shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :man_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Trip McNeely, post: 420508, member: 728"] I can’t say for certain but I’m wondering it’s one of two things. 1) Cisco populations aren’t dense enough to make them an abundant food source as compared to peck. 2) smelt are much more abundant than on peck and easier for salmon to gorge on so they focus their energy on smelt as forage and follow the smelt. In the end the salmon spend more time gorging on lesser energy food source so growth rates slow as compared to peck. Kinda like filling up on popcorn so you don’t eat your steak at a restaurant. Missing out on the better nutrients for growth because the popcorn is in front of your face and easy to get at. This may also explain why they seem sometimes very fickle and harder to catch than it is seemingly at Peck. 🤷‍♂️ [/QUOTE]

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