Average Angler wrote:
alwaysfishking wrote:

Somewhere I read or somebody once said that the average angler only fees
about 30% of all bites. Anyone know if there is any truth to this?


Yes, that's right. I'm Average Angler, and a guy with a government grant
in his pocket once asked me what percentage of fish bites I felt
compared to the actual number of bites that I knew nothing about. I
didn't want to appear ignorant, so I told him it was 30%. He seemed
happy with the answer.


I can see how you might set up an underwater camera to try to test this,
but I think to test it for a wide variety of conditions with a wide
variety of tackle with a wide variety of anglers would be a large task.
I'm guessing that many somebodies have said this, but they were just
guessing.