Re: Smarter Fish (inspired by FFing Humane?)
I have a number of theories no answers
a lot of those little fish just came from a place where people threw food to them, they arn't conditioned to be afraid of people waveing sticks or anything else
according to an orvis book on reading water, fish use a pecking order with the bigger fish geting the best spots, thus they can me more picky about what they eat beceause they have the most to choose from, the little ones have to take whats left.
the most careful fish will last the longest and grow the biggest. aka survival of the most fit. We once had a family of chipmunks living outside our cabin on the Oregon coast, the first eaten by an owl was the one that was the least careful. The one that stayed out longest and sat in the highest trees.
I know that I have caught the same fish on the same fly with in an hour, I know he didn' t learn.
Eric
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun