I saw my first sea trout of the spring on Radipole this morning - nicely marked and I'd estimate about 2lbs in the old scale. This brought to mind a strange event I witnessed from one of our bridges 12 months or so ago, when my gaze was drawn to a shape wafting gently in the current. Upon affixing my polarized sunglasses I was surprised to note that the gently wafting shape was the last six or eight inches of a fairly large eel protruding from the maw of a colossal sea trout of between 8 and 10lbs. - definitely a case of its eyes being bigger than its stomach!
A week or two later a group of us saw a smaller - but not small - specimen with a roach wedged in its mouth seemingly unable to go down or back out. Although rather regal in appearance and status these events would seem to suggest that sea trout are the true gluttons of the piscatorial world.