A Fishes Memory

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.