coryn h. fishowl

And I digress

Given that a friend of mine had a bass in an aquarium which he trained to swim around a log twice before getting food, I'd say they do. Not to mention that bass have been shown to cease biting certain lures in a controlled environment after several nips. They realize it isn't food and even months after, will not bite they lure once they have learned this.

Simple positive reinforcement vs punishment. Eat the slightly toxic one, or the delicious one.

My point exactly.

They eat them alright, but given a choice, they would most likely eat hellbender salamander than a less appetizing spotted.

Both, but the proving ground is the field. Good comment.

Fingerless gloves that go 3/4 up your fingers are what I like, but I need some new ones too.

I wonder if we can write-off such donations come tax season

It is the very basis of much scientific testing to allow us to make educated, scientific predictions as towards the outcome of situations that we cannot yet test, in much the same way the Einstein's Theory of Relativity made the prediction that mass bent light, one that would be tested years later via an eclipse. Indeed, those actions are integral to the definition of the word theory, the heart of science, "a law or principle about the workings of the universe that is both testable and makes verifiable predictions." No, Goodall's research could not have been conducted in a controlled zoo, but, as more accurately relatable to my analogy, her findings were used to spurn new theories of animal behavior that would be tested/ observed in the field. However, I predict, that as long as I keep catching them with my methodology, that I'll be happy; which is something I can easily test.

http://www.marlowsfishingpark.com/stocking1-html/ 4.75 for each one

Don't tell anyone that bold portion, it is usually illegal to harvest them this way. You can order from farmers quite well priced. FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO HAS AN IDEA ON HOW TO PROPERLY KEEP BASS. A friend of mine had a similar setup, he had a used 300 used (and therefore less costly) gallon tank with bass and crappie. The important thing is that THEY WILL OUTGROW THE TANK. Accept this. You will either have to eat or release the fish. Depending on where you live, you might need to get a special permit to release them. Get 8-10 inch bass and keep them until they get 2.5 pounds. Get a 30 gallon and 15-20 gallon tank to breed livebearers like guppies for food. (Send me a personal message to talk about this. It's easy to go broke feeding bass without culturing something.) And start a compost pile (40 gallon rubbermaid bin) with worms. (Again, send me a PM about food matters, pricing, etc.) Join a few aquaculture/aquarium forums, on most, you will be able to find someone with a large used tank. Keep in mind this will take time and planning. Learn more about aquariums in general, in fact try keeping a planted 50 gallon community tank, just to give you some experience with aquaculture. BTW, instead of just farming shad (which can overwhelm small ponds, outcompeting bass fry for plankton, causing them to die), also try mosquitofish; they reproduce like aquatic rabbits, and are food for everything

Now there is an effective class of baits that really can get burnt out.

Exactly why lures imitating forage accurately don't get burn out easily.

No, lures change and pressure on lakes fluctuates, so this wouldn't remain a consistent factor to the point that our innovation would get outpaced. Actually aquariums can offer a fairly realistic view into bass behavior. Take, for example, an experiment with bass showing that they prefered crawfish lures with no legs/claws to "healthy craws!" We can assume that the tank water was clear, the plastics were realistic, and that the bass had some experience with real crawfish before. Taking this into account, the bass, having learned form actual crawfish, know that the claws are defensive weapons, and would of course go for the easier meal, i.e. the injured lure. However, we can infer that the tank bass, living in gin-clear water, are mostly sight predators, as compared to their stained/muddy water dwelling counterparts, who use their lateral line and nose more. This allows us to predict that stained water bass may prefer a "Healthy" lure with intact appendages offering more vibration and a better overall multisensory appeal.

Exactly, but it is a word, like legions of others, so often used out of context. That was part of my point

What I find funny is that the blue and purple end of the visible light spectrum is where bass have the poorest vision, and yet it still stands. Also, when one says that bass have no cognition, they must think about what cognition is. If it is in the sense of self-awareness or abstract thinking, then no, but their brains are beautifully hardwired to allow them to survive, with remarkable memory and reaction time. However, there are many animals that are underrated in recognition of their intellect, such as crows, who have mental abilities to rival chimps and are crowned as one of the most intelligent animals on the planet.

I absolutely love evolutionary biology (especially in context to behavior,) I am ravenously devouring two books on animal behavior. This study you quoted reminded me of the Galapagos Finch study by Peter and Rosemary Grant. (Look it up, it is fascinating.) Your posts on this thread have really brought it into a more academic context. Interesting fact of the day: Sand Tiger Sharks have two uteri in which eggs hatch internally. In each one, the most developed embryo cannibalizes its weaker siblings. Eventually, only two (in seperate uteri) remain, and are born.

Sometimes that is the best. Predatory behavioral studies show that when attacking a group, the predator will always pick out the different animal, it is easily kept track of. There is a reason albino animals are rare.

Norman Fat Boy The fish in your profile pic resemble that lure (nice catch!)

Make no mistake, I have had extensive experience with fish, (aquariums) and somethings need not represent a natural food item for it to be found attractive. Think, for a moment, the first time a LMB encounters something that will become a food source, for example, a bluegill. At that point the bass does not know that bluegills are food...and yet it strike. It simply has to look like a potential meal. For example, a Senko looks like nothing in a bass' diet, and yet... The downside is that something like a spinnerbait, that mimics nothing in a bass' diet that it can be burnt out; as opposed to something like a fluke, which, mimicking a wounded baitfish, won't get burnt out as easily because it mimics something a bass regularly eats.

I know that one!

Exactly why Sasha won't die. Someone has to, but you have to judiciously kill off characters so that someone, somewhere has some kind of turmoil. Tyreese is already in pain, you don't kill another friend of his, you save her for another day, to break him in the manner that he is broken now. The Hershall daughters haven't been tortured too much recently, someone close to them must be killed. Glenn is already sick, so as much as I love the guy, he's going to die. The show's basis is sadism. I'm going to miss Glenn!

It's a useful skill, btw, remind me not to tick you off Sam

What, you guys don't use that bobber for flipping and pitching. Sometimes it's so hard to feel bites with a jig. I bring 5 when I go bank fishing in case I lose some. And so begins the big bobber jokes

Wood and surface vegetation are my favorite cover to hit from the bank. The bass seem to tolerate you coming closer. In fact, I usually flip/pitch to these areas from shore