I've had the conversation with my wife about fish determining if something is food or not.
I told her, imagine if a turd and a hot dog were laying on the side walk. Few humans would have trouble distinguishing the difference even without stooping down, picking it up and tasting it. My question to her is "would fish in their own element be any less discerning?"
It seems to me fish may strike lures for several different reasons, but because it looks like food may be less than we think. I throw pellets out among BG and they are hogging them up. Throw a lure out among a hundred fish feeding on pellets and most of them ignore it and eat pellets instead. But I will eventually catch one. Maybe a really dumb one???
Musings of someone who is not a very good angler. Pay no attention.
