What Makes Fish Bite?

[Spoonminnow]

Since there is a limited time to edit a post, I'm rewriting it because it drives me crazy seeing the errors!! Too bad grammerly doesn't work on c.com.
(Please delete the duplicate.)


Mabe irritated would have been a better word such as the irritation you experience when a bee suddenly comes out of nowhere near your face causing you to swat at it. Regardless, is your lure choice ever based on fish hunger or what fish are (supposedly) feeding on at that moment? How would you know if a fish was hungry, especially when the fish you just landed has a full belly and a minnow still sticking out of its gullet? (Gluttony perhaps? lol)

In my book, territorialism is just another possible cause of fish irritability also present when the impulse to eat something presents itself. Hey, I just thought of a descriptive adjective for all strikes in general: impulsive. It avoids assigning reasons such as hunger, irritation or anger (a word I don't remember using in past posts).

But another type of strike not mentioned is related to mob violence - IOW a (feeding?) frenzy that involves other fish in the school. (I guess the number of fish hooked, fighting for their lives as seen by their buddies, doesn't seem to matter. So much for fish IQ.) But unless I knew for certain that a baitfish school was near the school of striking fish, I can't say for sure those fish struck to eat - especially that one single, solitary lure I'm catching fish on one after another. A more accurate phrase in my book is strike-frenzy, comparable to a riot started by one individual that became contagious to others in the crowd. In this situation you could close your eyes, pick out one of a variety of lures and know it would be hammered regardless of whether the lure resembled a prey animal or not. Interesting though is when the strikes stop all at once. I would think some fish never got the opportunity to [fill in the word of choice].