https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzQbXGJ_1FY


I have been watching this guys videos about his pet Bass Belinda for a while now... This bass is very intelligent,, certainly has a personality and perspective...

I don't know if may people think about fish like they do Dogs or Cats but clearly they know whats going on..

At my house we have a few fish tanks,, with guppies and stuff and even those little guys can recognize people,, we have one tank with a Betta,, it knows my wife's face and voice... We had some large snails and one of them would go to the top of the tank and then release,, gliding down to the bottom,, it sure seemed like it was doing it for fun,, something to do...

Fish are not stupid,, they are certainly living a life...

I raised Koi for years at my other house and they learned to come right to the deck and eat out of my wife and I hands. Not so much when I got in the pond to do maintinance and take care of the lilly pads as I got shunned. They can be picky about things and if you piss them off they will let you know someway.

We had a couple of Koi in our pond that would come for food. Now we're tryin g to raise frogs and salamanders.

While we all have stories about how smart some fish can be, there are the dumb ones, too. Friend was sampling steelhead for scales and tissue. Caught one on a fly, did the sampling, and released it. Caught the same fish next cast.

Agency had some guys marking Springers in the Chehalis and caught the same fish twice in the same spot. Dumb or hungry you choose.

Dumb

Not going to give them a break are you!!!

Nah. I came to the conclusion about steelhead that they really are not that smart or hard to catch. What they are is really hard to locate; that's the battle in my mind.

A guy I worked with off and on over the years was a Steelhead fishing addict. He was fond of saying find Steelhead put the right thing in front of them and they will bite. Salmon sorta the same but leave out the bite part. If they are moving maybe one in whatever bite but nothing like Steelhead. If salmon are staged up it goes to just about zero with the exception being Chinook who are open to GOOD eggs. A bit of blind luck never hurts also.

Nine years of college, off and on, and one of THE most import issues in my life has been how to make fish bite! (Some of my credits have been in baseball theory, basketball rules, oudoor education, etc. But sometimes I needed an "A" to keep my gpa up.)

One does learn how to manipulate the GPA; fun, wasn't it?