What do fish eat?

What do fish eat?

By Josh Olive

Source: yoursun

11/25/2020

Think about your favorite fish to catch. Any species at all, from snook to tiger sharks. Now, what does that fish eat? I didn’t ask what you use for bait. I asked what it eats. When you think about it for a minute or two, you realize this is a much harder question than it first appears.

How do you know what a fish eats? If you were an ichthyologist, you’d go out and collect some specimens, then dissect them and study their stomach contents. Well, here’s something you may never have considered: As anglers, we are all ichthyologists. We all make a study of fish and their habits (some to a much greater degree than others).