Chemoreception in fish, i.e. gustation and olfaction or more simply taste and smell, can play a large role in fishing success. While all fish can likely taste to some degree, taste would not be considered to be a primary means of identifying food for most fish. The one great exception…
When I started researching about hearing in fish I really started to get bogged down in a lot of biology and physics, things like bone conduction, transmission of sound in water and inverse square laws come to mind. After a bit of this I realized that for our purposes as…
The various senses that fish use to navigate their watery world are of utmost interest to us as anglers. For each species a particular set of senses will dominate their hunt for food and our knowledge of this can be used to fool them to take our bait. As with…
