A Fishes Memory

I was just curious, how good are fishes memory?

I usually do my fishing on Mondays and Tuesday, and always think I'm
fishing at a bad time because the fish were recently pressured quite
abit (from the weekend anglers).

But do fish have good memory?

I know I have had times where I caught a fish, only to catch the same
fish the next day on the same lure.

Thanks!

"Aa Aa" wrote in message
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I was just curious, how good are fishes memory?

GREAT QUESTION!!!

I usually do my fishing on Mondays and Tuesday, and always think I'm
fishing at a bad time because the fish were recently pressured quite
abit (from the weekend anglers).

But do fish have good memory?

What is memory? What is your definition? What is fish memory? Does memory
vary with fish species?

What is good memory? Is there a scale, i.e.no memory, some memory, average
memory, good memory great memory?


I know I have had times where I caught a fish, only to catch the same
fish the next day on the same lure.

Once I read about a one eyed brown trout in the Gallatin that had been
caught over 1000 times in one summer.
Did he have no memory or was he just a trout? g

Good luck!
John

Once I read about a one eyed brown trout in the Gallatin that had been
caught over 1000 times in one summer. Did he have no memory or was he
just a trout?

That one's pretty hard to swallow Especially if it was a trout.

After I struggled with my memory and said:
Once I read about a one eyed brown trout in the Gallatin that had been
caught over 1000 times in one summer. Did he have no memory or was he
just a trout?

J Buck said:
That one's pretty hard to swallow Especially if it was a trout.

As I recall it was written by a bunch of college students casting to a
one-eyed brown. They kept casting to his good eye and he would strike -
blind eye and he ignored the offering. Was it memory or what?

Good luck!
John

"bassrecord" wrote in
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What is memory? What is your definition? What is fish memory? Does
memory vary with fish species?


For a fish, I think if the fish demonstrably exhibits behavior that has
been influenced by previous experience, that fish is showing memory.

Scott

What is memory? What is your definition? What is fish memory? Does
memory vary with fish species?

I had the answers written down somewhere but forgot where I put 'em

No one said there would be a test!!
"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"bassrecord" wrote in
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What is memory? What is your definition? What is fish memory? Does
memory vary with fish species?


For a fish, I think if the fish demonstrably exhibits behavior that has
been influenced by previous experience, that fish is showing memory.

Scott

Luckily for us, they remember that minnows are tasty

Discovery has a show called Mythbusters. They replayed a show where the myth
was that a goldfish could only rememeber things for 3 seconds (so every time
they swam around the bowl, they thought it was new). They proved gold fish
could be trained to swim more quickly through a simple maze to get food.

Do fish "remember" things? Sure... like a what fills your belly and to stay
away from bigger hungry fish but I doubt they have the capacity to
"rememeber" what a false bait looks like vs real food. Perhaps they might be
more apprehensive about feeding if they were just caught... but I doubt this
last more then a few hours or a day.

That and we probably all throw lures next to hundreds of fish each day that
we don't catch... or someone else did not catch the weekend before.

Just my 2 cents.


"Aa Aa" wrote in message
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I was just curious, how good are fishes memory?

I usually do my fishing on Mondays and Tuesday, and always think I'm
fishing at a bad time because the fish were recently pressured quite
abit (from the weekend anglers).

But do fish have good memory?

I know I have had times where I caught a fish, only to catch the same
fish the next day on the same lure.

Indeed a good question, I used to fish black bungee worms on a lake near me
with great success. Then after a while of landing fish after fish with them
it stopped. I;'ve tried them again after that from time to time only to be
met with the same results. "El Skunko", switch to a senko or spinnerbait and
fishing was once again back on. Maybe it was a confidence thing or maybe the
bass in this small little lake don't like bungee worms no more. Who knows
"Todd Copeland" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Discovery has a show called Mythbusters. They replayed a show where the
myth
was that a goldfish could only rememeber things for 3 seconds (so every
time
they swam around the bowl, they thought it was new). They proved gold fish
could be trained to swim more quickly through a simple maze to get food.

Do fish "remember" things? Sure... like a what fills your belly and to
stay
away from bigger hungry fish but I doubt they have the capacity to
"rememeber" what a false bait looks like vs real food. Perhaps they might
be
more apprehensive about feeding if they were just caught... but I doubt
this
last more then a few hours or a day.

That and we probably all throw lures next to hundreds of fish each day
that
we don't catch... or someone else did not catch the weekend before.

Just my 2 cents.


"Aa Aa" wrote in message
...
I was just curious, how good are fishes memory?

I usually do my fishing on Mondays and Tuesday, and always think I'm
fishing at a bad time because the fish were recently pressured quite
abit (from the weekend anglers).

But do fish have good memory?

I know I have had times where I caught a fish, only to catch the same
fish the next day on the same lure.