How and Why Do Fish Swim in Schools?
Before we start to examine this interesting phenomenon, we first have to make a distinction between schooling fish and shoaling fish. When fish are shoaling, th...
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How Does Weather Affect Fishing?
From the online Collins English Dictionary we get the following definition: “The weather is the condition of the atmosphere in one area at a particular time, fo...
Why Do Fish Jump Out of the Water?
Whether you are an angler or not, I am pretty sure that quite a few people regularly observe fish jumping out of the water, be it at the beach or next to a lake...
What Do Carp Eat?
Firstly, carp are cold blooded creatures which means their body temperature is the same as their environment. Knowing this gives us a good clue as to what do ca...
What Do Trout Eat?
One of the first questions a novice trout angler may ask would probably be - What do trout eat? The answer to this question seems simple enough, but upon ta...
10 Reasons Why Fish Can Die in Aquarium Tanks
You thought you had it. You thought you were a full-blown adult human being with the emotional, practical, and intellectual capabilities to take care of another...
What Do Bass Eat?
Once you start getting interested in bass fishing, one of the first, inevitable questions that pops up is: What exactly do bass eat in their natural environment...
How to Teach Kids to Fish
Teaching a young person to fish is, in my opinion, making an investment in future. Not only do you impart certain skills that can provide a life time of joy and...
How to Find Fish
There’s a general perception out there that fishing is a sport for the unskilled, the lazy or the not so adventurous. The image of a guy slouching in a deck cha...
How to Fish for Trout in a Stream
My fascination with fly fishing started at a very early age, but it only came to fruition during my student years while at Stellenbosch University in South Afri...