What Makes Fish Bite?

[Spoonminnow]

Mabe irritated would have been a better word such as the irritation you experience when mosquitoes constantly buzz around your face causing you to you swat at them.

Regardless, is your lure choice ever based on hunger or what fish are (supposedly) feeding on? How would you know, especially when the fish you just landed has a full belly and a minnow still sticking out of its gullet? Gluttony perhaps?

In my book, territorialism is just another form of irritation in the world of fish when the feeding impulse is not present. Hey, I just thought of a descriptive word for all strikes: impulsive. It's even better than irritation or anger (a word I don't remember using in past posts), without out being specific regarding the reaon fish strike such as hunger or territorial response.

But another type of strike not mentioned is related to mob violence - IOW - where after one fish strikes, a feeding frenzy is started, leading to one fish after another being caught, regardless the number fish in a panic seen caught by their nearby buddies. Unless I knew for certain that a baitfish school was near the school of striking fish, I couldn't say for sure those fish struck to eat - especially only a single, solitary lure. I would rather label it stike-frenzy comparitive to a riot started by one individual, which then becomes contagious. In this case you could close your eyes picking out different lures and pretty much all would be struck. (i.e. fish bit this minnow shaped lure, but then struck a claw shaped plastic and then a fly and then a Crappie Magnet, etc. Guess prey-type targeting wasn't relevant.)