I've "heard" that fish will rememeber being hooked for 30 seconds after they are realeased. Not sure where and when I heard this and how valid it is. Because of the size of a fish's brain, it could be true.
From my freshwater days on Champlain, this is one thing that I observed about LM bass. Someone once told me at a bait shop that bass will not eat for up to 24 hours after being caught. After catching a 3 lb LMB I put him in a live well that was full of shiners and lo and behold he went straight for the bottom and just sat there relaxing. After a 1/2 hour I didn't want to potentially lose any bait, so I released him, so I don't know how long before he would have gone nuts with all of that food around him. There are a lot of reasons why he might not have been eating, the primary one being the shock of a completely new environment being on the top of the list, so I'm not sure exactly what this all means, but I did think it was very interseting.
Swimming lures for African cichlids. Hmm.... hope they were barbless!!
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