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Some folks might say a certain type of fish would eat a turd, of course, the first things that might come to your mind would be a Carp (or any bottom feeder) and Hatchery Trout. What makes one think a Salmon wouldn't eat a egg looped turd with a red bead/corky above it, even a Steelhead or Native Rainbow. Fish live to do three things, Eat, Spawn, and Compete to stay alive, what makes fish any different from mammals, or unevolved humans, all fish are created equal, maybe the placement of the mouth has adapted to how that fish has had the most success feeding and meeting it's dietary requirements, if a Bass or Salmon had the same diet of a Carp or Hatchery Trout, it would probably have no problem surviving, it would get the neccesary Carbs, Proteins, Minerals, and Aminos to survive.
Even Aggression, ALL fish have some aggression and there is almost always atleast one way to trigger it, I have seen a 12lb Carp swim full throttle into a school of baby shiners/squaws with its mouth open while I was standing about 12ft away. Leech, Crayfish, and Minnow patterns can trigger aggression, in some cases I even believe Eggs trigger it too.
This is not a thread to get people to gain respect for Carp, in fact, you can forget I even mentioned the word Carp to get the point that all fish are just fish regardless of species, if you locked up some Bass in a pond with nothing but Bloodworms buried in the mud, a lot of those bass would eventually live like a bottom feeder and dig around the mud trying to find everydays meal just because that is what nature taught it to do, and after a long while, some generation of those Bass could even evolve to have a slight downturned mouth. If a certain species of fish was stupid, it wouldn't be on planet Earth this year.
So once you get to really understand one type of fish, you can usually incorporate your knowledge into catching a variety of other fish, fresh or salt, America or not.
Even Aggression, ALL fish have some aggression and there is almost always atleast one way to trigger it, I have seen a 12lb Carp swim full throttle into a school of baby shiners/squaws with its mouth open while I was standing about 12ft away. Leech, Crayfish, and Minnow patterns can trigger aggression, in some cases I even believe Eggs trigger it too.
This is not a thread to get people to gain respect for Carp, in fact, you can forget I even mentioned the word Carp to get the point that all fish are just fish regardless of species, if you locked up some Bass in a pond with nothing but Bloodworms buried in the mud, a lot of those bass would eventually live like a bottom feeder and dig around the mud trying to find everydays meal just because that is what nature taught it to do, and after a long while, some generation of those Bass could even evolve to have a slight downturned mouth. If a certain species of fish was stupid, it wouldn't be on planet Earth this year.
So once you get to really understand one type of fish, you can usually incorporate your knowledge into catching a variety of other fish, fresh or salt, America or not.
