Show SPORTS PORT JL S AFIELD by BT ted kesting go after a lifetime of fishing and studying such matters I 1 have found but one reliable way to determine how well fish are biting go out and fish so says jason lucas As angling editor of sports afield magazine lucas gets lots of mail from readers who write that the fish they catch often have empty stomachs some recent experiments tend to show that fish frequently before taking a bait or lure disgorge the contents of their stomachs bells and two readers who fish in exceptionally nally clear water in different parts of the count country have recently written of seeing bass disgorge after taking a plug instinct perhaps telling them they could fight better on empty stomachs so if you catch a bass with no food ih him bim it does necessarily mean that he eaten intelligence of fish also brings lots okreader ot of reader comment the past few years several ties have been experimenting with this but lucas feels that all experiments with fish in tanks must be rd regarded girded with great caution cp caution ution sann they have little bearing 1 on what wild fish will do still analyzing them properly properly they can be interesting to fishermen in helping to determine c comparative 0 ft para tive intelligence of different r e n t species not only ih iii different species but in individual fish of one species intelligence can vary enormously this explains exo loins why some pome very large fish may lip b found in hard fished water they were born ff smarter marter than the rest and so ve longer and grow bigger ger then theres the question ibl how long individual fish can remember mem ller being ning hooked with op ona it might be only minutes with another an hour a week a year or perhaps a lifetime though that is doubtful nor will a fish lose lose caution aalst all at once he will lose ft it gradually thua thus when hes lost only part of it he stands a good chance of be being ing caught by a smart angler who wh is expert at fooling fish though kh hed hebbe be quite safe from a beginner ginner |