In the last part of this column, I talked about keeping earthworms indoors and I said I would tell you how to keep some of the other summertime foods to feed your fish. These foods are just as available as the underground foods but a little harder to catch. They have to be baited if you have the time or they may be purchased and maintained in the home.

First I’ll tackle the garden pest we all have grown to dislike, the grasshopper.
This little monster and his friends can wipe out the most beautiful gardens in a matter of weeks. This may not seem like a long time, but ask any gardener if he or she wants to see a grasshopper. That person will give you a very nasty look and will ask you why. They don’t like those insects at all. My mom was trying to create a very nice flower garden only to have it ruined by these little pests.

I had this wild idea about feeding grasshoppers to my Oscar. The fish has been raised since he was about two inches long. At the time I started feeding him grasshoppers, he was eight inches long. Goldfish were draining my wallet at the time. I was sixteen and still in High School, a job was totally un-cool to have. A teenager’s allowance has no room for fish food. Then I remembered a trip my parents took us on through the mountains of Virginia. We came across a state run hatchery filled with trout. For a kid at the age of eleven this ...

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