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Get to Know Your Fish

In many ways, fish are not especially intelligent, but there is one way in which these animals are brilliant: as the ocean’s food detectives. Every species of fish has unique feeding habits that it pursues in favorite habitats at different times of year. Knowing how fish find their food helps you to know where to fish at the right time. Some fish are only found in “big,” open water, while others feed in bays and estuaries . Some fish have to be pursued in a boat, but some can be caught with a hook on a line dropped off the end of a pier. There are fish that approach a baited line from the side, so they can eat it without being hooked. You have to know how to place the bait on the hook so a fish can’t take it without getting caught. Then there are those fish that have a large mouth and can’t be caught with a small hook, and those that have a small

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