Anyone have some interesting facts

[Iceman12]

I am working on a speech for school and was wondering if anyone has some interesting facts or just anything cool about fishing? Thanks.

[Groloe]

I'm not sure what type of info you're looking for- but how about this...

Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass are not actually part of the Bass family, they're part of the Sunfish Family.

[Pig_sticka]

for an informative, talk about a few of the lakes and their impact. mille lacs, winni, leech, lake of the woods, vermillion, red lakes, etc.
mille lacs of all the inland lakes has had the most impact and is pretty well known all across the country, same with red and lake of the woods. i am in a minnesota history class right now and learning about the lakes histories was pretty cool. walleye is the state fish, that is what most people fish for.
if your doing it between hard water and soft water, do a thing on how it effects them.
good luck with the paper.

[SWMuskeye]

Here's one,

Members of the bullhead family (bullheads, catfish) taste with their whiskers. Also, they have taste buds that cover their entire body. So if a piece of food touches their tail, they can taste it.

[tulikow]

Iceman12,
I am also working on a speech for school about fishing. I read that muskies have been known to jump up and eat blackbirds perched on cattails.

[tyler97]

The giant red-breasted hairy foot reproduces by walking through the woods at night on groomed park trails. They are thought to be extinct, but there have been reported sightings in Battle Creek Park , and McDonalds.

[tyler97]

That's right tulikow, and that's the exact reason that I don't take my blackbird with me when I fish for muskie. I take my good-luck charm poodle,"Toodles", instead.

[Pig_sticka]

they keep their money in river banks

[MJR]

Bass can see more colors more distinctly than humans.

Stocked Walleyes relate to weeds more so than naturally reproducing Walleyes.

Bass love plastic worms, however natural worms are almost never found where bass are caught on plastics.

What is a spinnerbait supposed to look like and why would a fish eat one?

Fish do not get thirsty

[EBass]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that fish don't have eye lids. Also, do they sleep, if so how can you tell?

The difference between muskies and northerns is in the tail. Muskies have forked tails while northerns are round.

Hybrids- I think round to. Not sure though.

[tyler97]

On the bottom jaw of a muskie, there are 6 or more pores whereas northerns have 5 or less. That is an easy way to distinguish between the two. Tiger muskies have a rounded tail similar to a northern. Also northerns have a dark background coloring. Muskies are all light colored in their main coloring.

[simplefish]

Largemouth bass (possibly other species) can't see anything smaller in diameter than the edge of a dime.

The walleye has a refractive lens covering their eye wich enables them to see better in low light conditions.

Muskies have not only been know to jump out of the water at blackbirds but will also eat ducklings, mice, snakes, and small muskrats.

Sunfish caught in a pond that has frozen all the way through can still be alive and healthy when the ice melts, although probably missing a finger or two...

And last but not least, regardless of popular belief the barbles on fish of the catfish family cannot and do not sting you.
-Mike

[Sturgeon46]

I'd do something that's easy to define - simple to research. Maybe something that fisheries biologists do to improve sport fishing in the state by cross-breeding similar species to produce fast growing easy to catch fish like tiger muskies or splake trout. Wipers are similar - but not a Minnesota thing.

Lake Superior fisheries management is an interesting thing too.